Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washingtonwas an American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African-American community...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth5 April 1856
CountryUnited States of America
race long world
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
surprise whole-life whole
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
school college progress
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.
people criticism would-be
...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
people miserable
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
peace hate men
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
business thinking hands
I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim ""Do not get others to do what you can do yourself."" My motto on the other hand is; ""Do not do that which others can do as well.
inspirational work writing
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
famous-inspirational race hands
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
struggle self-confidence race
Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
education race independence
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
common labor bottom
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
race diversity effort
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
argument results
We must reinforce argument with results.