Booker T. Washington Quotes about Progress

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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

Booker T. Washington

Progress, Yards, Inches

"The Booker T. Washington. Papers".

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

Struggle, Race, Progress

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

Booker T. Washington

Stars, Law, Progress

John William Gibson, William Henry Crogman, Booker T. Washington, Fannie Barrier Williams (1902). “Progress of a race: or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust”

By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

Booker T. Washington

School, College, Progress

Booker T. Washington (2014). “An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work”, p.100, Jazzybee Verlag