Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
Booker T. WashingtonOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. WashingtonI would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. WashingtonThere is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Booker T. Washington