189 Quotes by Booker T. Washington

"We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness."

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority."

"Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na površinu."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

"It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges."

"In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."