While driving home from work, I heard an excellent quote today. When I heard who the quote was from, and when, I determined to find it and post it.
Along the way, I found more great quotes by this person.
Here, from Wikipedia, is a teaser about this person:
This person was born April 5, 1856 and died
November 14, 1915; was an
American educator, author and leader of the
African American community. S/he was freed from slavery as a child, gained an education, and as a young adult was appointed to lead a teachers' college for blacks. From this position of leadership s/he rose into a nationally prominent role as spokesman for African Americans.
I thought it would be nice to hear some positive coming out of a black person, particularly in light of the filth we've been subjected to by the alleged black leaders the past week or so.
So, who is this mystery guest? Why, none other than Booker T. Washington. I think I would have liked to have known him. After a remarkable life, he seems to have embodied the true ideals for getting along with his fellow man. We didn't hear from him the hate and vitriol we hear from the likes of Sharpton, Jackson and Wright.

We do hear echoes of him in today's Juan Williams and Bill Cosby, who espouse education, responsibility and not expecting everyone to do for you. One of my favorite Cosby quotes is, "What good is
Brown v. Board of Education if nobody wants it?"
The very last quote is the one I heard today, the one which sent me on my quest. Mr. Washington wrote it as a preface to one of his books, and it is circa 1911.
One last tidbit? Mr. Washington was mulatto as well, born to a white plantation owner and a slave mother. He was just as mulatto as Barack Hussein Obama; what he is lacking, however, is the sense of entitlement, the anger, the arrogance. He was a producer, being one of the original founders of Tuskegee College. He mingled with great men, regardless of color, and was able to obtain funding for his schools based on his vision.
That all sounds wonderful, but let's keep this in perspective. Mr. Washington was a product of a completely different era. HE WAS A SLAVE. He was freed and HE MADE SOMETHING LASTING OF HIMSELF.
He wasn't a hustler, he wasn't a race baiter, he wasn't a hater. He was a real man--certainly a rarity today.
More important, it is men like him who were the inspiration for the civil rights workers 75-80 years later. He was the inspiration of what could be gained with education, with quiet dignity and non-violence.
He is the kind of man blacks need to be looking up to--not the race baiters, not the haters, not the hip-hop filth and the hos and bling.
Below are quotes of Booker T. Washington. Emphasis is mine.
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.
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It’s wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It’s more wonderful when the leader believes in their people!
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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.
Character, not circumstances, makes the man
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
"At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy."
"As I look back now over that part of our struggle, I am glad that we had it. I am glad that we endured all those discomforts and inconveniences. I am glad that our students had to dig out the place for their kitchen and dining room. I am glad that out first boarding-place was in that dismal, ill-lighted, and damp basement. Had we started in a fine, attractive, convenient room, I fear we would have "lost our heads" and become "stuck up".It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for one's self."
"With God's help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race. I am made to feel just as happy now when I am rendering service to Southern white men as when the service is rendered to a member of my own race. I pity from the bottom of my heart any Individual who is unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.
"The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women."
"I have great faith in the power and influence of facts. It is seldom that anything is permanently gained by holding back a fact."
There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.
A truly remarkable man and well worth learning about. His lessons and ideas are as timely today as they were a century ago.
Also posted at Digg! here; GOP Hub here and Grizzly Groundswell here.
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Now, the poor beaten soul thinks that he can re-write history, much akin to what has happened in the Bible. Let me paste my challenge that he woefully fails in answering here:
“Again, for the millionth time:
IF YOUR BIBLE SAYS GOD COMMANDED THE HEBREWS TO SLAUGHTER MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AND TO ENSLAVE LITTLE GIRLS FOR SEX THEN YOU CAN NOT CALL ANY OTHER RELIGION ON PLANET EARTH VIOLENT.
“Deaf, dumb and blind, they will not find the path.”
Now to summarize the challenges you will endlessly evade:
1) FIND A SINGLE VERSE IN THE QUR’AN THAT COMPARES EVEN REMOTELY TO NUMBERS 31.
2) FIND A SINGLE VERSE IN THE QUR’AN THAT INSTRUCTS AMERICAN MUSLIMS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST THEIR NON-MUSLIM NEIGHBORS.”
Note, how he left the first part out? Telling, indeed. This verse from the Bible is most appropriate here:
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?”
[Matthew 7:3]
For the millionth time:
IF YOUR BIBLE SAYS GOD COMMANDED THE HEBREWS TO SLAUGHTER MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AND TO ENSLAVE LITTLE GIRLS FOR SEX THEN YOU CAN NOT CALL ANY OTHER RELIGION ON PLANET EARTH VIOLENT.
Old Testament:
“AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING, AVENGE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OF THE MIDIANITES: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people. And Moses spake unto the people, saying, ARM SOME OF YOURSELVES UNTO THE WAR, AND LET THEM GO AGAINST THE MIDIANITES, AND AVENGE THE LORD OF MIDIAN.”
[Numbers 31:1-3]
This genocide, slaughter, rape and child sex slavery was the order and command of GOD HIMSELF according to the Bible.
Furthermore, to say this was an act of the Hebrews themselves is ludicrous because the Hebrews displayed compassion and Moses REPRIMANDED them for it!
“And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp. AND MOSES WAS WROTH (ANGRY!) with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. AND MOSES SAID UNTO THEM, HAVE YE SAVED ALL THE WOMEN ALIVE? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. NOW THEREFORE KILL EVERY MALE AMONG THE LITTLE ONES, AND KILL EVERY WOMAN THAT HATH KNOWN MAN BY LYING WITH HIM. BUT ALL THE WOMEN CHILDREN, THAT HAVE NOT KNOWN A MAN BY LYING WITH HIM, KEEP ALIVE FOR YOURSELVES.”
New Testament:
“And He said to them, ‘When I sent you without money bag, knapsack, and sandals, did you lack anything?’ So they said, ‘Nothing.’ Then He said to them, ‘BUT NOW, HE WHO HAS A MONEY BAG, LET HIM TAKE IT, AND LIKEWISE A KNAPSACK; AND HE WHO HAS NO SWORD, LET HIM SELL HIS GARMENT AND BUY ONE. For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have an end.’ SO THEY SAID, ‘LORD, LOOK,HERE ARE TWO SWORDS.’ And He said to them, ‘IT IS ENOUGH.’”
[Luke 21:38]
And this is what the world has to look forward to when Jesus returns according to the Book of Revelation:
“”And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOETH A SHARP SWORD, THAT WITH IT HE SHOULD SMITE THE NATIONS: AND HE SHALL RULE THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON: AND HE TREADETH THE WINEPRESS OF THE FIERCENESS AND WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD.”
[Revelations 19:11-15]
You can call Islam violent all you want. If, for the sake of argument, it is, then it is no break whatsoever than the norm found in the Semitic religious tradition of the Jews and their indiscriminate culling of civilians in the Bible and Jesus’ readiness to battle his Roman captors.
Next, I’ll address the complete lies about the Qur’an posted in this maniacal blog entry shortly, God willing.
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