Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
Booker T. WashingtonNo 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.
Booker T. WashingtonYou must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
Booker T. WashingtonIn order to be successful in any undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause. In proportion as one loses himself in this way, in the same degree does he get the highest happiness out of his work.
Booker T. Washington