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Quotation from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
“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, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #2376)
Recalling his boyhood envy of white boys, he explains why he no longer feels it.
Citation: "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." — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg #2376). (id up-from-slavery-q3)
Portrait: UpFromSlavery cover, Booker T. Washington / Doubleday & Co., Public domain.
