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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.

Booker T. Washington

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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
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Growth Law Man Stop
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Convinced Heart Message Mutual Progress
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
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
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
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Black History Hands Kwanzaa
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
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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Economic Education Independence Politics Race Religion
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
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 must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value

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