Quotes from Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
- Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Booker T. Washington
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
- Booker T. Washington
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
- Booker T. Washington
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
- Booker T. Washington
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
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
- Booker T. Washington
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
- Booker T. Washington
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
- Booker T. Washington
There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
- Booker T. Washington
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
- Booker T. Washington