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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

Booker T. Washington

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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
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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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
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.
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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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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World Worth
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
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States

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