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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

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
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.
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Communication Pockets Vocabulary
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
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
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World
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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Book Equal Men
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
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
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
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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Determination Men Success
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State

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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