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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFrom some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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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 measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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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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Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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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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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
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Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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