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Do not do that which others can do as well.

Booker T. Washington

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
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
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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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward
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
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim “”Do not get others to do what you can do yourself.”” My motto on the other hand is; “”Do not do that which others can do as well.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Affirmation Learning Myself Thinking
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness
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 white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
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
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
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.
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Character Hands Heart

Do not do that which others can do as well.

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