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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

— Booker T. Washington The Great Quotations (1971)

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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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