The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
Booker T. WashingtonOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. WashingtonEvery person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
Booker T. WashingtonWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington