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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Color Hate Men
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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Attention Evil Giving
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result

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