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.
Booker T. Washington
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- Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
- 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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