Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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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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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.
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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