Quotessence
Home / Authors / Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington Quotes

Educator

Filter quotes by topic

AllMenRaceIfsSuccessWayInspirationalPeopleWantDoneAfrican AmericanHelpingWorldCharacterHateIndividualLiftsLittlesSlaveryThinkingCommon

Famous Booker T. Washington Quotes

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

IfsWantLifeInspirationalMotivationalInspiringWorryPositiveEntrepreneurCharityCustomersAfrican AmericanLiftsHealthcarePhilanthropyLiftingInsperationalTrust YourselfVolunteerismPhilanthropicCommunity ServiceInspirational Customer ServiceInspiring Customer ServiceInspirational ServiceGreat ResponsibilityBest ServiceCool MotivationalArt Of LovingLift You UpLifting OthersMotivate EmployeesLift Me UpServing The CommunityAmazing Inspirational
Author:Booker T. Washington
Create image

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

PeopleWantAbleJobsLosesPayRaceClassTroubleHabitAdvertisingHardshipGrievanceVictimhood
Book:My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience
Create image

“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 an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

WantWellsMeanLongProblemCertainEasyRaceLibertyClassDiseasePatientMediumsProminentGet WellMaking A LivingProblem Solvers
Book:The Booker T. Washington Reader
Create image

“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.”

WorldWantLongRunningDifferencesJusticeRaceDiversitySocial JusticeLong Runs
Book:Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Create image