Booker T. Washington Quotes - Page 3

Quotes about:

• No one can degrade us except ourselves.

  Booker T. Washington

  Positive, Positivity, Degrade

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1981). “The Booker T. Washington Papers”, p.36, University of Illinois Press

  31 Copy quote

• ...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

  Booker T. Washington

  People, Criticism, Would Be

  Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth (2017). “100$ REWARD ON MY HEAD – Powerful & Unflinching Memoirs Of Former Slaves: 28 Narratives in One Volume: With Hundreds of Documented Testimonies & True Life Stories: Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth...”, p.1065, e-artnow

  30 Copy quote

• The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

  Booker T. Washington

  Race, Done, World

  Booker T. Washington (2009). “Up from Slavery: An Autobiography”, p.171, The Floating Press

  20 Copy quote

• You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  26 Copy quote

• Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.

  Booker T. Washington

  Family, Success, Inspiration

  51 Copy quote

• Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; 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

  Struggle, Self Confidence, Race

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1977). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1903-4”, p.188, University of Illinois Press

  10 Copy quote

• You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

  Booker T. Washington

  School, Race, Black History

  23 Copy quote

• In order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.

  Booker T. Washington

  Successful, Thinking, Order

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.311, University of Illinois Press

  32 Copy quote

• The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Men

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.384, University of Illinois Press

  14 Copy quote

• One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

  Booker T. Washington

  Kindness, Men, Compassion

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

  14 Copy quote

• Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

  Booker T. Washington

  Common, Bottom, Labor

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  25 Copy quote

• If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

  Booker T. Washington

  Dream, Realizing, Hard

  14 Copy quote

• We must reinforce argument with results.

  Booker T. Washington

  Argument, Results

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1977). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1903-4”, p.93, University of Illinois Press

  11 Copy quote

• There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Brotherhood, Drag

  Booker T. Washington (1972). “Papers: The Autobiographical Writings”, p.96, University of Illinois Press

  10 Copy quote

• Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
  that political independence disappears without economic independence
  that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Knowing, Leader, Political

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1984). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

  13 Copy quote

• Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

  Booker T. Washington

  Stars, Law, Progress

  John William Gibson, William Henry Crogman, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams (1902). “Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust”

  20 Copy quote

• Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

  Booker T. Washington

  People, Stronger, Ethics

  22 Copy quote

• The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

  Booker T. Washington

  Done, Quiet, Said

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

  30 Copy quote

• No 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.

  Booker T. Washington

  Food, Men, Thinking

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.47, Courier Corporation

  26 Copy quote

• The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.

  Booker T. Washington

  Encouragement, Opportunity, America

  8 Copy quote

• If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of all denominations in America has done during the last 35 years for the elevation of the black man would have made me a Christian.

  Booker T. Washington

  Christian, Men, Years

  8 Copy quote

• There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

  Booker T. Washington

  Defense, Development, Highest

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

  44 Copy quote

• I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.

  Booker T. Washington

  Believe, Race, Done

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.137, Courier Corporation

  28 Copy quote

• I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.

  Booker T. Washington

  Evil, Giving, Attention

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

Page 3 of 5

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin