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
kindness men compassion
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
done quiet said
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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.
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.
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.
family masters
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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.
helping-others helping proportion
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
footprint
Success always leaves footprints.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.