More From Booker T. Washington
- "Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."
- "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."
- "At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
More In Power
- "A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."― Louis Kahn
- "Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help."― Alvin Adams
- "You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy."― Robert Caro