Booker T. Washington American Quotations

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

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