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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

Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Countries People Some Jobs Wants
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Food Men Thinking
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
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
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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Color Hate Himself Man Soul
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
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
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

Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Christian Men Years
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Body Heart People

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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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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