189 Quotes by Booker T. Washington

With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a with youth in order to secure recognition. But out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one missed whose pathway is comparatively smooth by reason of brith and race.

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.