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
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.
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.
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.
country men law
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
communication vocabulary rifles
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
civilization study problem
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.
mom mother attention
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
positive degrade
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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.
men want overcoming
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.
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.