Booker T. Washington Quotes

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn’t meant.

Success always leaves footprints.

Don’t ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.