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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.

Booker T. Washington

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
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exception Ourselves Validation Value
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
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
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
Character is power.
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Character Country People
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
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.
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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Remote Small Success
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
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
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
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
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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Character Men Skill
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
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Contribution Degree Market Race

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