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Booker T. Washington

United States educator who was born a slave but became educated and founded a college at Tuskegee in Alabama (1856-1915)

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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

– Booker T. Washington

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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.

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Always be Graceful and Useful Nara Bhuvaneshwari

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Character is power.

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.

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I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.

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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

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There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.

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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

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Marhamah Harum
make sense, tanks.
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Teodoro E. Cerda Harris
Go ahead thinking all that we thinking
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Robert Barry Knox
For any Historian it is always satisfying to discover a new source for a project.
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