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. WASHINGTONYears ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
More Booker T. Washington Quotes
-
-
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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 -
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
Success always leaves footprints.
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 -
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON -
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON