Booker t. washington

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

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

We must reinforce argument with results.

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.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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

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