“Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na površinu.”
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“Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.”
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“I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
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