Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIgnorance is more costly to any State than education.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONStart where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAt 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. WASHINGTONThe time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONRemember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONA 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. WASHINGTONWe do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONFew things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONGreat men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe 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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONAt 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. WASHINGTONThere is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONSuccess is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONThe longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONEducated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON