The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIt 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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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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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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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We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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I 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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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 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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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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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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And that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
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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 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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You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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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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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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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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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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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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