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
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother. — 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
Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
If no other consideration had convinced me of the value of the Christian life, the Christ like work which the Church of… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 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
