Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. Booker T. Washington View this quote
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood. Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
My experience teaches me that if a man has little or no influence with those by whose side he lives, as a rule there is something wrong with him. Booker T. Washington
Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it. Booker T. Washington
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control. Booker T. Washington
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. Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. Booker T. Washington
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. Booker T. Washington
One of the highest and surest signs of civilization is that a people have learned to obey the commands of those who are placed over them. 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
The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal. Booker T. Washington
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
April 5th, 1856 - November 14th, 1915
