No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington
More Quotes By Booker T. Washington
- The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand...
- The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress...
- There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as...
- At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must...
- Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of...
- There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and...
- Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try...
- There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
- Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
- The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do...
- Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
- Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill,...
- We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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