Ted Mac > Ted's Quotes

“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na površinu.”
― Booker T. Washington

“The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.”
― Booker T. Washington

“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“In all things social we can be as seperate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”
― Booker T. Washington

“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
― Booker T. Washington

“I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery

“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
― Raymond Carver