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
book men equal
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
character men skills
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
book people soul
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
people stronger ethics
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
heart race prejudice
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
knowing leader political
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
progress yards inches
An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.
self calm patient
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
giving evil attention
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
helping-others helping proportion
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
footprint
Success always leaves footprints.
heart people body
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
african-american world remember
Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
family masters
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.