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 is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
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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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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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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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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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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Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood … progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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