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 overcome while trying to succeed.
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Booker T. Washington quotes & passages
2 passages by Booker T. Washington, from Up from Slavery. Booker T. Washington died in 1915, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery, 1901 · Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
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