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
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and… — 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
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — 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
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves,… — 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
“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
