Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
Booker T. Washington
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Educator
Human Rights Activist
Pedagogue
Politician
Teacher
Writer
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Booker Washington
Hand
Race
Extend
Less
Willingness
Helping
Test
Hands
Fortunate
Tests
Civilization
Highest
More quotes by Booker T. Washington
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington
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
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
Booker T. Washington
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
Booker T. Washington
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. Washington
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Booker T. Washington
Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)
Booker T. Washington
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
Booker T. Washington
Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
Booker T. Washington
We must reinforce argument with results.
Booker T. Washington
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.
Booker T. Washington
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
Booker T. Washington
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Booker T. Washington
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
Booker T. Washington
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
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
Booker T. Washington
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
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
Booker T. Washington
