Booker T. Washington Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Letting Go, Stay Strong, Men

  "The Great Quotations" edited by George Seldes, (p. 641), 1971.

• Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Hate, Men, Race

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

• Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Thinking, Hands

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.62, University of Illinois Press

• In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists. Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.

  Booker T. Washington

  Country, Men, Law

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.35, University of Illinois Press

• From some things that I have said one may get the idea that some of the slaves did not want freedom. This is not true. I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

  Booker T. Washington

  Ideas, Return, Slavery

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• 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. Washington

  Heart, Race, Prejudice

• I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

  Booker T. Washington

  Heart, People, Body

  Booker T. Washington (2015). “Up from Slavery: Top Biography”, p.13, 谷月社

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