The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I learned what education was expected to do for an individual. Before going there I had a good deal of the then… — 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
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
“Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one… — 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 surest way to success in education, and in any other line for that matter, is to stick close to the common… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“I have gotten a large part of my education from actual contact with things, rather than through the medium of books. I… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“wherever a school is actually teaching boys and girls to do something that the community wants, it is seldom that that school… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“The first time that I went to Tuskegee I was asked to make an address to the school on Sunday evening. I… — 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