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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then that I would permit no man, no matter what his color, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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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 always leaves footprints.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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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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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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