WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. : If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. : Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed. (Booker T. Washington, U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)