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“I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.”
― Up from Slavery
― Up from Slavery
“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.”
― Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
― Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
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