Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Booker T. Washington Quotes Click here for Booker T. Washington books Booker T. Washington: Volume 1: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (Galaxy Book: 428) "Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him." "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”" "Character is power.”" "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.” "If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.” "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.” "The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts." "No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts." "I believe it is the duty of the Negro - as the greater part of the race is already doing - to deport himself modestly in regard to political claims, depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed from the possession of property, intelligence, and high character for the full recognition of his political rights." |
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