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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Booker T. Washington

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Buckets Common Way
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Happiness Happy Inspirational
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Oneself Strength Way
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness Yourself
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Education Independence Race
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Guide Himself Necessary Position
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
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
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
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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Help Humanity Life Worth
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Calm Greatest Patient Possession Self
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Men Overcoming Want
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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Confidence Experience Gained Self Way

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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