There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. WashingtonLet us keep before us the fact that, almost without exception, every race or nation that has ever got upon its feet has done so through struggle and trial and persecution; and that out of this very resistance to wrong, out of the struggle against odds, they have gained strength, self-confidence, and experience which they could not have gained in any other way.
Booker T. WashingtonIt means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
Booker T. WashingtonThe Negro is not the man farthest down. The condition of the coloured farmer in the most backward parts of the Southern States of America, even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
Booker T. Washington