Booker T. Washington Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Quality Quotes
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
Ability Quotes
“No 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.”
Injury Quotes
“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.”
Vocabulary Quotes
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Volunteerism Quotes
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -Booker T. Washington.”
Anger Quotes
“We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.”
Brotherhood Quotes
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
Dignity Quotes
“I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.”
Hate Quotes
“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”
Oppression Quotes
“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.”
Reward Quotes
“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. - Up from Slavery.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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