Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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.
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.