Quotes 41 till 51 of 51.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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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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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6] -
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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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
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The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
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There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and fund-raising efforts of capitalist and Tuskegee University founder, Booker T. Washington.
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