Booker T. Washington: A man's success should be measured, not so much by the position he has reached…
A man's success should be measured, not so much by the position he has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
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- From the book Up from Slavery, 1901, chapter 2 "Boyhood Days", p. 39; first published in The Outlook, 10 November 1900
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