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• No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
  -- Booker T. Washingto...
• 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 (1856-1915) "Up From Slavery" (1901)...
• 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 while trying to succeed.
  -- Booker T. Washingto...
• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. -- Booker T. Washingto
• There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
  -- Booker T. Washingto...
• We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them as brothers.
  -- Booker T. Washingto...
• You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. -- Booker T. Washingto