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 connections individual
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
integrity race individual
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
race done world
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
believe race done
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
men race doors
To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'
race long world
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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.
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.
struggle race progress
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.
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.
school race black-history
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.
children yield race
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort