You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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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.
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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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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In 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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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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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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