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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.
― Booker T. Washington
GetWell
Mean
Race
Booker T. Washington
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.
― Booker T. Washington
Jobs
Race
Class
Booker T. Washington
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Life
Success
Booker T. Washington
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Happiness
Happy
Booker T. Washington
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
― Booker T. Washington
Determination
Waiting
Booker T. Washington
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
― Booker T. Washington
Believe
Men
Thinking
Booker T. Washington
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Booker T. Washington
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
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
― Booker T. Washington
Art
Caring
Volunteer
Booker T. Washington
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
― Booker T. Washington
Positive
Hate
Angel
Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
― Booker T. Washington
Positive
Strength
Success
Booker T. Washington
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
― Booker T. Washington
Character
Men
Skills
Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
― Booker T. Washington
Inspirational
Motivational
Obstacles
Booker T. Washington
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.
― Booker T. Washington
Running
Long
World
Booker T. Washington
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
― Booker T. Washington
Hurt
Doe
Grudge
Booker T. Washington
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
― Booker T. Washington
Progress
Yards
Inches
Booker T. Washington
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.
― Booker T. Washington
Race
Diversity
Effort
Booker T. Washington
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
― Booker T. Washington
Men
Hatred
AfricanAmerican
Booker T. Washington
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
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
― Booker T. Washington
Character
Men
Circumstances
Booker T. Washington
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