Quotes from 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
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
- 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
If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
- Booker T. Washington
Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.
- Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Booker T. Washington
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
- 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
Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.
- Booker T. Washington