More Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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.
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.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
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.
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
