We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
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
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth… — 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,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people… — 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
Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one… — 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
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I resolved then… — 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
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who… — 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
