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
Booker T. Washington quotes about
character heart hands
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
ideas people succeed
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
hands kwanzaa black-history
In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
ignorance states
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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.
life karma humility
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
two might habit
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
positive degrade
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
progress yards inches
An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.
hate men color
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
exercise law important
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
courage silence suffering
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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.
mom mother attention
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.