Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

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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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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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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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