More from Booker T. Washington

  1. I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease ho…
  2. Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
  3. There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race befo…
  4. There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
  5. My whole life has largely been one of surprises. I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of t…
  6. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
  7. No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left witho…
  8. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we mu…

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