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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.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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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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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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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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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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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
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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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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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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim Do not get others to do what you can do yourself. My motto on the other hand is Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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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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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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