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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Character is power.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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