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Booker T. Washington Quotes

Booker T. Washington quotes

American Educator April 5, 1856 – November 15, 1915

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Booker T. Washington quote: "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is..."
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company Booker T. Washington
My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into the South and taken up and become interested in some practical work which would have brought them in touch with people and things, the whole world would have looked very different to them. Bad as conditions might have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was being made, they would have... Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington quote: "Success always leaves footprints."
Success always leaves footprints. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington quote: "Few things can help an individual more than to place..."
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington
Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished. Booker T. Washington
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington quote: "We do not want the men of another color for our..."
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington quote: "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a..."
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. Booker T. Washington
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs? partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. Booker T. Washington
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington
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. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington quote: "If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington quote: "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing..."
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington
I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race. Booker T. Washington
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. Booker T. Washington

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