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Booker T. Washington

"To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."

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"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."
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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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"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
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"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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"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
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