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
education mind done
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
mean thinking foundation
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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.
integrity race individual
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
success thinking self
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
sight class house
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
believe heart sake
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
men important success-and-failure
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
brother men color
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
school college progress
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.
african-american words-of-wisdom chance
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
uplifting self years
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
positive hate men
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.