Booker T. Washington Quotes

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

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

There are two ways of exerting one`s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.