An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA 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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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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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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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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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 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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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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Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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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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