Booker T. Washington Quotes
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Booker T. Washington Famous Quotes & Sayings
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Education is not a thing apart from life - not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them.
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.
Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
healthy. I believe that when one can grow to the point where he loves his work, this gives him a kind of strength that is most valuable.
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
That my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not - of
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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.
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker ... there is no escape ... people drag others or lift others up.
The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company
rich people are coming to regard men and women who apply to them for help for worthy objects, not as beggars, but as agents for doing their work.