Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

- Booker T. Washington

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

- Booker T. Washington

Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason…

- Booker T. Washington

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

- Booker T. Washington

Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themse…

- 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 overco…

- Booker T. Washington

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

- Booker T. Washington

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

- Booker T. Washington

There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only …

- Booker T. Washington