189 Quotes by Booker T. Washington

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.