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About Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Lecturer, Civil Rights & Human Rights Activist, Educational Administrator, Professor, Executive Founder of Tuskegee Institute

Dedicating himself to the idea that education would raise his people to equality in this country, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington became a teacher. He first taught in his home town, then at the Hampton Institute, and then in 1881, he founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama.

QUOTES SAYINGS OF 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

“You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.”

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

Booker T. Washington

  “I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.”  – Booker T. Washington

 “Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”

 Booker T. Washington

“No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.”

 Booker T. Washington

      “Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.”

 “At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”