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More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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.
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.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
