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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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.
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
-
-
Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those…who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON