Booker T. Washington Quotes

the most miserable are those who do the

We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions.

The world cares very little what you or I know, but it does care a great deal about what you or I do.

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

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.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.

"Mr. Clark Howell, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, telegraphed to a New York paper, among other words, the following, "I do not exaggerate when I say that Professor Booker T. Washington's address yesterday was one of the most notable speeches, both as to character and as to the warmth of its reception, ever delivered to a Southern audience. The address was a revelation. The whole speech is a platform upon which blacks and whites can stand with full justice to each other.

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. Looked

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.

Character is power.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

but no white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

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

The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.