Hands

OF INDUSTRY, PRODUCTIVITY AND PROTECTION

• Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. – 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

• Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top- Booker T. Washington

• The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts -Booker T. Washington

• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. – Booker T. Washington

• The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race. – Booker T. Washington

• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. – Booker T. Washington

• No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. – Booker T. Washington

• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence – 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

• Cast down your bucket where you are. – Booker T. Washington

• A whining crying race may be pitied but seldom respected. – Booker T. Washington