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
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.
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.
letting-go stay-strong men
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
inspirational leadership athlete
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
men thinking white
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
life opportunity dying
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
success attention life-is
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
hurt doe grudge
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
inspirational-life humanity helpful
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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.
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.
men brotherhood drag
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
men hatred african-american
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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.