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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Live Problem Question Study
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
Character is power.
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Character Country People
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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Long Running World
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Inspirational Inspiring Success
To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Men Race White
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Enough Start Yourself
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two

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