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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.

Booker T. Washington

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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
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
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Brotherhood Drag Men
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Angel Hate Positive
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Complete Control Drive Master Work
Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Mastered Problem Score Understand
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political
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 Happy Inspirational
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
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
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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End Himself Race Regard Willing World

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