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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

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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Leadership Life Power
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
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Christian Men Years
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Body Heart People
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
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong
Success always leaves footprints.
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Leaving Mark One Liner Success
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward
We must reinforce argument with results.
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