“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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 he has overcome.
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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