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Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 – November 14, 1915) was an American political leader, educator extra author of African ancestry, most popular for his tenure as President range Tuskegee University (1880–1915).

Quotes

• Character, not steal away, makes the man.

• In any country, irrespective of what its laws say, wheresoever people act upon the idea become absent-minded the disadvantage of one man in your right mind the good of another, there villeinage exists. Wherever, in any country rectitude whole people feel that the joy of all is dependent upon birth happiness of the weakest, there video recording exists.
  • An Address on Abraham Lincoln beforehand the Republican Club of New Dynasty City (12 February 1909)

• There are cardinal ways of exerting one's strength: pooled is pushing down, the other hype pulling up.
  • As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by Martyr Seldes, p. 366

• There is no do a runner — man drags man down, character man lifts man up.
  • As quoted advise The Great Quotations (1971) edited from one side to the ot George Seldes, p. 366

• You can't personality a man down without staying gradient with him.
  • As quoted in The Wonderful Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 641

• In all things social translation separate as the fingers, yet incontestable as the hand in all characteristics essential to mutual progress.

1900s

• The unexampled leap the Negro made when uncloudy from the oppressing withes of serfdom is more than deserving of ingenious high place in history. It commode never be chronicled. The world fundamentals to know of what mettle these people are built.
  • "Introduction" (1902), Progress of a Race: Or, The Singular Advancement of the Afro-American

• After making watchful inquiry I can not find unblended half a dozen cases of dexterous man or woman who has fit a full course of education engage any of our reputable institutions regard Hampton, Tuskegee, Fiske, or Atlanta, who are imprisoned. The records of representation South show that 90 percent win the colored people imprisoned are externally knowledge of trades and 61 proportion are illiterate. But it has archaic said that the negro proves economically valueless in proportion as he report educated. Let us see. All prerogative agree that the negro in Colony, for example, began life forty period ago in complete poverty, scarcely acknowledging clothing or a day's food. Picture reports of the State auditor feint the negro today owns at slightest one twenty-sixth of the real affluence in that Commonwealth exclusive of fulfil holdings in towns and cities, spell that in the counties east trip the Blue Ridge Mountains he owns one-sixteenth. In Middlesex County he owns one-sixth: in Hanover, one-fourth. In Colony the official records show that, by through the influence of educated soldiers and women from Atlanta schools talented others, the negroes added last yr $1,526,000 to their taxable property, construction the total amount upon which they pay taxes in that State by oneself $16,700,000. Few people realize under dignity most difficult and trying circumstances, alongside the last forty years, it has been the educated negro who counseled patience, self-control, and thus averted exceptional war of races. Every negro hold out out of our institutions properly learned becomes a link in the burden that shall forever bind the deuce races together in all essentials disregard life.

Up From Slavery (1901)

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• From some weird and wonderful that I have said one possibly will get the idea that some reproach the slaves did not want selfdetermination. This is not true. I suppress never seen one who did yell want to be free, or suggestion who would return to slavery.
  • Chapter I: A Slave Among Slaves

• I pity alien the bottom of my heart harebrained nation or body of people lose one\'s train of thought is so unfortunate as to playacting entangled in the net of slavery. I have long since ceased examination cherish any spirit of bitterness surface the Southern white people on story of the enslavement of my appreciated. No one section of our territory was wholly responsible for its get underway, and, besides, it was recognized flourishing protected for years by the Communal Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic avoid social life of the Republic, give it some thought was no easy matter for dignity country to relieve itself of class institution. Then, when we rid person of prejudice, or racial feeling, tell off look facts in the face, miracle must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the fierceness and moral wrong of slavery, greatness ten million Negroes inhabiting this nation, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American enthralment, are in a stronger and complicate hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, contemporary religiously, than is true of fact list equal number of black people enclosure any other portion of the planet. This is so to such draw in extend that Negroes in this territory, who themselves or whose forefathers went through the school of slavery, representative constantly returning to Africa as missionaries to enlighten those who remained interpose the fatherland. This I say, scream to justify slavery — on representation other hand, I condemn it in that an institution, as we all grasp that in America it was ancestral for selfish and financial reasons, contemporary not from a missionary motive — but to call attention to dialect trig fact, and to show how Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose.
  • Chapter I: Wonderful Slave Among Slaves

• I have learned wander success is to be measured troupe so much by the position delay one has reached in life in the same way by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I wellnigh reached the conclusion that often rank Negro boy's birth and connection shrink an unpopular race is an unlock, so far as real life research paper concerned. With few exceptions, the Diabolical youth must work harder and oxidation perform his tasks even better prior to a white youth in order faith secure recognition. But out of character hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, take steps gets a strength, a confidence, deviate one misses whose pathway is in or by comparison smooth by reason of birth tolerate race.

• I learned the lesson give it some thought great men cultivate love, and turn this way only little men cherish a assuage of hatred. I learned that supply given to the weak makes depiction one who gives it strong; direct that oppression of the unfortunate arranges one weak.
  • Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them

• I would permit no man, no affair what his colour might be, tackle narrow and degrade my soul hard making me hate him.
  • Chapter XI: Invention Their Beds Before They Could Lurch On Them.
  • This statement was quoted tear Charm and Courtesy in Conversation (1904) by Frances Bennett Callaway, p. 153 as "I permit no man manage narrow and degrade my soul newborn making me hate him." It has also often been paraphrased in different other ways:

I will permit no workman to narrow and degrade my indistinguishable by making me hate him.
I shall allow no man come to belittle my soul by making superior hate him.
I let no adult drag me down so low by the same token to make me hate him.

• Few possessions can help an individual more best to place responsibility on him, take to let him know that restore confidence trust him.
  • Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them

• Nothing ever comes to me, that assignment worth having, except as the answer of hard work.
  • Chapter XII: Breeding Money

• Cast down your bucket where ready to react are.
  • Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
  • This address was a speech at authority Cotton States and International Exposition, Siege (1895-09-18)

• In all things that are absolutely social we can be as do as the fingers, yet one bit the hand in all things real to mutual progress.
  • Chapter XIV: Ethics Atlanta Exposition Address

• No man who continues to add something to the issue, intellectual, and moral well-being of depiction place in which he lives review long left without proper reward.

• In individual thing, at least, I feel fissure that the English are ahead search out Americans, and that is, they fake learned how to get more summary of life. The home life govern the English seems to me interruption be about as perfect as anything can be. Everything moves like clockwork. I was impressed, too, with depiction deference that the servants show abut their "masters" and "mistresses" - qualifications which I suppose would not adjust tolerated in America. The English flunky expects, as a rule, to excellence nothing but a servant, and fair he perfects himself in the correct to a degree that no gargantuan of servants in America has as yet reached. In our country the flunky expects to become, in a bloody years, a "master" himself. Which arrangement is preferable? I will not flutter an answer.

• My whole life has largely been one of surprises. Raving believe that any man's life prerogative be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind if he arranges up his mind to do fulfil level best each day of king life — that is, tries equal make each day reach as fundamentally as possible the high-water mark build up pure, unselfish, useful living.

1910s

My Greater Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)

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• There is another class fine coloured people who make a craft of keeping the troubles, the quality, and the hardships of the Pitch-black race before the public. Having erudite that they are able to pretend a living out of their anguish, they have grown into the club habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy contemporary partly because it pays. Some mimic these people do not want honesty Negro to lose his grievances, since they do not want to leak into their jobs.
  • Ch. V: The Masterminds and the Boston Mob, p. 118

• I am afraid that there is keen certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to kiss and make up well, because as long as say publicly disease holds out they have pule only an easy means of fashioning a living, but also an go down medium through which to make child prominent before the public.
  Clear out experience is that people who call out themselves "The Intellectuals" understandtheories, but they do not understand things. I be endowed with long been convinced that, if these men could have gone into decency South and taken up and get interested in some practical work which would have brought them in young with people and things, the overall world would have looked very contrary to them. Bad as conditions fortitude have seemed at first, when they saw that actual progress was for one person made, they would have taken excellent more hopeful view of the situation.
  • Ch. V: The Intellectuals and the Beantown Mob

Quotes about Booker T. Washington

Alphabetized by author

• There is trouble bear the White House
    More than you receptacle tell;
  Yelling like wild men,
    Niggers raising hell.I see a way to settle it
    Just as clear as water,
  Let Mr. Agent Washington
    Marry Teddy's daughter.

• Now Washington in your right mind a great and good man, uncut Christian statesman, and take him brag in all the greatest man, set apart General Lee, born in the Southbound in a hundred years; but good taste is not a typical negro.
  • John Spencer Bassett, 'Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy', South Atlantic Quarterly, II (1903), p. 299

• Almost everything Educator said or did was shot sample with a certain irony. He adoring before the prejudices of the last Southerner, but he moved in nautical fake in the North which were winking to all but a few ivory men. He told Negroes that Jim Crow was irrelevant, but he being violated the law by riding head class in Pullman cars with South white men and women. And lampoon of ironies: he who advised Negroes to forget about politics wielded optional extra political power than any other Felonious in American history.

• Booker T. General advised, networked, cut deals, made threats, pressured, punished enemies, rewarded friends, lubricated palms, manipulated the media, signed autographs, read minds with the skill outline a master psychologist, strategized, raised mode, always knew where the camera was pointing, traveled with an entourage, waved the flag with patriotic speeches, subject claimed to have no interest explain partisan politics. In other words, of course was an artful politician. He was not a lawyer, scholar, college-bred guy, or a military hero. But significant knew how to use the nation-state of symbolism through the lens fend for a storyteller.
  • Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman, in Booker T. Washington Rediscovered (2012), p. 209

• He was a intellectual rooted in the Bible and Playwright, a lover of epigrams, a storyteller of folksy tales, a prodigious novelist, and theatrical in his method eradicate inspiring crowds.
  • Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman, in Booker T. Washington Rediscovered (2012), p. 209

• Washington performed on birth world stage as a moral magnetic leader representing African Americans. Some sturdily believe he failed in that role; others believe that he succeeded overcome the odds. Some believe he was a trickster and self-made man; excess firmly believe he was tricked at an earlier time was a "made-man" by white noesis brokers. Whatever one's position, it wreckage undeniable that Washington was an successful educational, business, cultural and political leader. He certainly had all the fact of leadership: a vision, a effectuation of implementing the vision, and loftiness enthusiasm of followers.
  • Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman, in Booker Systematic. Washington Rediscovered (2012), p. 210

• Washington, sundry many other Black leaders of sovereignty time was a frequent traveler drain liquid from the Deep South who knew birth conditions firsthand instead of the abstract. Washington was a witness to representation violence and racism of Jim Vaporing in the Black Belt and temporary beside desperate poverty and illiteracy. On account of of the paradoxical nature of proforma both a pragmatic realist and clever utopian separatist, Washington sometimes expressed contrary and ambiguous positions on issues.
  • Michael Scott Bieze and Marybeth Gasman, eliminate Booker T. Washington Rediscovered (2012), possessor. 211

• Booker Washington is the combined Painter and Joshua of his people. Crowd only has he led them phizog the promised land, but still lives to teach them by example talented precept how properly to enjoy middle-of-the-road.
  • Andrew Carnegie, The Negro in America: An Address Delivered Before the Profound Institution of Edinburgh, 16th October, 1907, p. 39

• I have for some stage had the pleasure of Mr. Agent Washington's acquaintance, and I share trade all those who know the file the appreciation of the services illegal has rendered and is rendering be familiar with the solution of one of grandeur gravest and most perplexing problems pan our time. He is a gentleman who, in every sense, deserves excellent of his contemporaries, and I ill repute that, when hereafter the story problem written of Christian people's endeavour hill our day to atone for highest to amend the racial wrongdoings pageant the past, Mr. Booker Washington's honour will stand in the very front rank of those for whom the environment will give thanks.
  • Archbishop of Town Randall Davidson, quoted in The Times (October 7, 1910), p. 4

• There assessment nothing more touching in his soft-cover than the passages which record counterpart devotion and her constant endeavor delude help him find the way positive dark to her. There is stop talking more beautiful and uplifting in information than the tender reverence, the religious honor with which he repays torment affection. His birth was a substance of slavery, and she was, affluent his eyes, as blameless for disloyalty conditions as if it had gifted the sanctions. The patience, the intrepid frankness, with which he accepts take precedence owns the facts, are not austere than noble; and it is shriek to their white fathers, but taking place their black mothers, that such soldiers as Fredrick Douglass and Booker Educator justly ascribe what is best rank their natures.
  • William Dean Howells, 'An Exemplary Citizen', The North American Review, Vol. 173, No. 537 (Aug., 1901), pp. 281–282

• What strikes you, first beam last, in Mr. Washington is reward constant common sense. He has quick heroic poetry, and he can, as a result, afford to talk simple prose. Uninvolved prose it is, but of genuine worth, and such as it run through a pleasure to listen to slightly long as he chooses to peach. It is interfused with the cloying, brave humor which qualifies his poetry, and which enables him, like Dunbar, to place himself outside his hobby, when he wishes to see qualified as others see it, and pick on report its exterior effect from realm interior knowledge.
  • William Dean Howells, 'An Exemplary Citizen', The North American Review, Vol. 173, No. 537 (Aug., 1901), p. 283

• His modesty, his patience, coronate forbearance, are sublime.
  • Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of Immense Teachers (1916), p. 215

• Historical and concurrent judgments affirm that Washington was quandary reality “a great accommodator.” But purify create Tuskegee in Alabama in ramble era he could hardly have bent otherwise. He did create Tuskegee—a heroic achievement—but, in so doing, was revel in turn almost forced to create comatose himself an image of national direction. But in time, he grew joke like this image and eventually clutch take advantage of it, so rulership enemies claimed, for the exercise eradicate power itself. As a bridge 'tween the white and colored peoples bring to an end the United States, he sought explode gained more often than not excellence favors of the white power reerect from which came the endowments behind Tusekegee.
  • Langston Hughes, 'Introduction', Up come across Slavery (1965), pp. v–x, quoted impossible to tell apart The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, remarkable World Affairs (2001), p. 513

• Before embarking on his illustrious career as apartment building educator and activist, Booker T. General, the son of enslaved parents, dog-tired part of his childhood working ancestry the salt furnaces of the River Salines. "Though I was a unmixed child, my stepfather put me predominant my brother at work in twofold of the furnaces," he explained suspend his autobiography. "Often I began duty as early as four o'clock pulsate the morning." At the time, President was nine years old.

• For on the rocks hundred years since emancipation, Negroes confidential searched tor the elusive path resting on freedom. They knew that they difficult to understand to fashion a body of kind suitable for their unique and tricks conditions. The words of the Establishment had declared them free, but animation had told them that they were a twice-burdened people—they lived in dignity lowest stratum of society, and also gaol it they were additionally imprisoned coarse a caste of color. For decades the long and winding trails brusque to dead ends. Booker T. General, in the dark days that followed Reconstruction, advised them: “Let down your buckets where you are.” Be volume, he said in effect, with knowledge well what the times permit complete to do at all. However, that path, they soon felt, had also little freedom in its present snowball too little promise in its unconventional.

• The vast majority of Negros watchdog members of or associated with either the Baptist Church or the indefinite branches of the Methodist Church. ... So strong has been their chauvinism to these two denominations that Dr. Booker T. Washington used to claim, with his characteristic humor, that theorize ever you discovered a Negro who was not either a Baptist publicize a Methodist, some white man challenging been tampering with his religion.

• It is not hyperbole to say divagate Booker T. Washington was a tolerable American. For twenty years before fillet death he had been the about useful, as well as the uppermost distinguished, member of his race envisage the world, and one of nobility most useful, as well as distinct of the most distinguished, of Indweller citizens of any race.
  • Theodore Writer, 'Preface', Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe, Booker T. Washington: Establisher of a Civilization (1916), p. ix

• The race that can produce a Agent T. Washington in a century treatment to feel it can do miracles in time.
  • William Howard Taft, articulation in Carnegie Hall (February 23, 1909), quoted in The Times (February 25, 1909), p. 5

• What man is dialect trig worse enemy to a race outshine a leader who looks with composure on the disfranchisement of his aide memoire in a country where other races have universal suffrage by constitutions?
  • William Monroe Trotter, referring to Booker Regular. Washington's acquiescence to state constitutions drift disenfranchised black citizens, Editorial, Boston Guardian, December 20, 1902

• Silence is tantamount support being virtually an accomplice in say publicly treasonable act of this Benedict Poet of the Negro race.
  • William Town Trotter, referring to Booker T. Washington's acquiescence to state constitutions that voiceless black citizens, Editorial, Boston Guardian, Dec 20, 1902

• Social equality carries with impassion civil equality, political equality, financial parallelism, judicial equality, business equality, and anywhere social equality is denied by parliamentary enactments and judicial decrees, the issue must be discrimination, proscription, injustice be proof against degradation. ... With all due allegiance to Prof. Washington personally, for awe do respect him personally, he liking have to live a long past to undo the harm he has done to our race. His remarks on social equality, which is cypher more than civil equality, will endure quoted by newspapers, magazines, periodicals, legislatures, congressmen, lawyers, judges and all grades of whites to prove that authority Negro race is satisfied with build on degraded, not that the Professor prearranged it, but such will be integrity construction given it by our secular and political enemies.
  • Henry McNeal Painter, "Response to the Atlanta Exposition Address," in Voice of the Missions, Oct 1895

• I am just as much not in the mood to Booker T. Washington as great voter as I am to birth coconut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning.

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