Frases de Booker T. Washington
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Booker Taliaferro Washington foi um educador e líder afro-americano estadunidense.

✵ 5. Abril 1856 – 14. Novembro 1915
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Booker T. Washington Frases famosas

“Aprendi que não se deve medir o sucesso pela posição que a pessoa alcançou na vida, mas pelos obstáculos que ela teve de superar enquanto tentava ser bem-sucedida.”

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.
Up From Slavery, Chapter II (1901)

Booker T. Washington: Frases em inglês

“In all things social as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

As quoted in speech by Edward de Veaux Morrell https://cdn.loc.gov/service/rbc/lcrbmrp/t2609/t2609.pdf (April 1904)
Variante: In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

“After making careful inquiry I can not find a half a dozen cases of a man or woman who has completed a full course of education in any of our reputable institutions like Hampton, Tuskegee, Fiske, or Atlanta, who are imprisoned. The records of the South show that 90 percent of the colored people imprisoned are without knowledge of trades and 61 percent are illiterate. But it has been said that the negro proves economically valueless in proportion as he is educated. Let us see. All will agree that the negro in Virginia, for example, began life forty years ago in complete poverty, scarcely owning clothing or a day's food. The reports of the State auditor show the negro today owns at least one twenty-sixth of the real estate in that Commonwealth exclusive of his holdings in towns and cities, and that in the counties east of the Blue Ridge Mountains he owns one-sixteenth. In Middlesex County he owns one-sixth: in Hanover, one-fourth. In Georgia the official records show that, largely through the influence of educated men and women from Atlanta schools and others, the negroes added last year $1,526,000 to their taxable property, making the total amount upon which they pay taxes in that State alone $16,700,000. Few people realize under the most difficult and trying circumstances, during the last forty years, it has been the educated negro who counseled patience, self-control, and thus averted a war of races. Every negro going out of our institutions properly educated becomes a link in the chain that shall forever bind the two races together in all essentials of life.”

Speech in New York (12 February 1904), as quoted in speech by Edward de Veaux Morrell in the House of Representatives https://cdn.loc.gov/service/rbc/lcrbmrp/t2609/t2609.pdf (4 April 1904)
1900s

“There is no escape — man drags man down, or man lifts man up.”

As quoted in The Great Quotations (1971) edited by George Seldes, p. 366

“The unprecedented leap the Negro made when freed from the oppressing withes of bondage is more than deserving of a high place in history. It can never be chronicled. The world needs to know of what mettle these people are built.”

"Introduction" https://books.google.com/books?id=Ss5tAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q&f=false (1902), Progress of a Race: Or, The Remarkable Advancement of the Afro-American
1900s

“Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.”

This seems to be a paraphrase sumarizing a speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham, as described in Thinking Black: Some of the Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind (1997) by DeWayne Wickham
Misattributed

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

Fonte: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI: Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them

“There is no power on earth, that can neutralize the influence of a high, pure, simple and useful life.”

Booker T. Washington livro Character Building

"The Virtue of Simplicity," from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee Institute (1902), p. 41 http://books.google.com/books?vid=0xSIrRTbnYkF0PDougzpPqX&id=DYYMAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=%22Character+Building:+Being+Addresses+Delivered%22#PPA41,M1

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

Fonte: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XII: Raising Money

“We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions.”

As quoted in Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 (1919), by E.G. Renesch, Chicago

“Cast down your bucket where you are.”

This address was a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta (1895-09-18)
Fonte: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address

“I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.”

The Story of My Life and Work, vol. I (1900), ch. XV: Cuban Education and the Chicago Peace Jubilee Address http://web.archive.org/20071031084035/www.historycooperative.org/btw/Vol.1/html/126.html