The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIf 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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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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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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Success always leaves footprints.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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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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