The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I have found in my dealings with the Negro race — and I believe that the same is true of all races… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Let us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“There are some things that one individual can do for another, and there are some things that one race can do for another. But,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
“Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
The Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
“it takes no more time to be polite to every one than it does to be rude.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share
