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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.

Booker T. Washington

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

Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
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
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
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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Ethics People Stronger
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Dying Life Opportunity
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
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

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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