Booker T Washington – died

ON THIS DATE

Booker T Washington died 11/14/1915.  His mother was a slave, his father an unidentified white planter; Booker was born under slavery. He became educated, built up Tuskegee Institute and became the first black man invited to the White House.  He wrote several books but is best known for his Up From Slavery.

 

NOTE: now and then I see quotes said by bad/questionable characters.  Please do know a little about the person you quote.  W.E.B. Du Bois for example opposed Booker.  Dubois used his mouth while Booker poured his LIFE into helping the Negro.

 

Booker Quote:

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

“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”

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George Washington Carver – death, Jan. 5, 1943

“May the Lord poor out his choicest blessings upon you and your work.  Yours for Christ, Geo. W. Carver.  (close of a letter written to Booker T. Washington, May 8, 1896)

   -Basil Miller, George Washington Carver, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1943), 56.

 

“You never saw a heavy thinker with his mouth open.  Stop talking so much…”

   -Basil Miller, George Washington Carver, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1943), 124.

 

Ninety-nine per cent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

   -Basil Miller, George Washington Carver, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1943), 131.

 

Holding up before the audience a dinosaur tooth…he said, “There is no conflict between Genesis and geology or any true science.”

   -Basil Miller, George Washington Carver, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1943), 139.

 

“It is not we little men who do the work but it is our blessed Creator working through us…other people can have this power, if they only believe.  The secret lies” – touching his Bible which was on his desk – “right here, in the promises of God.  They are real, but so few people believe them to be real.”

   -Basil Miller, George Washington Carver, (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing, 1943), 161.

 

George Washington Carver died this day (1/5/1943).  He was truly one of America’s greatest scientists.    

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