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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

Booker T. Washington
Character, Men, Skills

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington
Character, Men, Circumstances
"Democracy and Education". Booker T. Washington's Speech at Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn NY, September 30, 1896.

Character is power.

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Character

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
Heart, Character, Hands
Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

Booker T. Washington
Character, Rights, Political
Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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