You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONLet our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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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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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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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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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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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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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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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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The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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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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