Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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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.
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