If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams. Booker T. Washington More Quotes by Booker T. Washington More Quotes From Booker T. Washington I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done. Booker T. Washington evil attention giving I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery. Booker T. Washington body heart people Had (I) been a member of a more popular race, I should have been inclined to yield to the temptation of depending upon my ancestry and my colour to do that for me which I should do for myself. Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort Booker T. Washington yield race children Success always leaves footprints. Booker T. Washington footprint I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver. Booker T. Washington doe heart believe In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world. Booker T. Washington soul book people The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. Booker T. Washington done said quiet To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.' Booker T. Washington race white men We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. Booker T. Washington color brother men In proportion as one renders service he becomes great. Booker T. Washington volunteer helping-others helping Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. Booker T. Washington growth law men We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. Booker T. Washington pockets vocabulary communication One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. Booker T. Washington compassion kindness men We must reinforce argument with results. Booker T. Washington argument results No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. Booker T. Washington karma humility life In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants. Booker T. Washington differences race running By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress. Booker T. Washington progress college school The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. Booker T. Washington dying opportunity life Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington volunteer caring art Character is power. Booker T. Washington character
