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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Booker T. Washington

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Development Exception High Intelligence Security
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Guide Himself Necessary Position
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment 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
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Enough Start Yourself
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills
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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Long Running World

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

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