ARMSTRONG in Classic Quotes

1  General Armstrong asked me to take charge of the night-school, and I did so.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

2  General Armstrong was anxious to try the experiment systematically on a large scale.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

3  General Armstrong spent two of the last six months of his life in my home at Tuskegee.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

4  It never occurred to me that General Armstrong could fail in anything that he undertook.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

5  I did not know how to refuse to perform any service that General Armstrong desired of me.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

6  About this time the experiment was being tried for the first time, by General Armstrong, of educating Indians at Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

7  Armstrong, who, I repeat, was, in my opinion, the rarest, strongest, and most beautiful character that it has ever been my privilege to meet.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

8  It was enough for us to know that we were pleasing General Armstrong, and that we were making it possible for an additional number of students to secure an education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

9  My anxiety about clothing was increased because of the fact that General Armstrong made a personal inspection of the young men in ranks, to see that their clothes were clean.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

10  As soon as it became known that General Armstrong would be pleased if some of the older students would live in the tents during the winter, nearly every student in school volunteered to go.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

11  Fresh from the degrading influences of the slave plantation and the coal-mines, it was a rare privilege for me to be permitted to come into direct contact with such a character as General Armstrong.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

12  It has been my fortune to meet personally many of what are called great characters, both in Europe and America, but I do not hesitate to say that I never met any man who, in my estimation, was the equal of General Armstrong.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

13  I have spoken of my admiration for General Armstrong, and yet he was but a type of that Christlike body of men and women who went into the Negro schools at the close of the war by the hundreds to assist in lifting up my race.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

14  One might have removed from Hampton all the buildings, class-rooms, teachers, and industries, and given the men and women there the opportunity of coming into daily contact with General Armstrong, and that alone would have been a liberal education.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

15  Soon after my return to my home in West Virginia, where I had planned to continue teaching, I was again surprised to receive a letter from General Armstrong, asking me to return to Hampton partly as a teacher and partly to pursue some supplementary studies.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

16  The plan of the school was not modelled after that of any other institution then in existence, but every improvement was made under the magnificent leadership of General Armstrong solely with the view of meeting and helping the needs of our people as they presented themselves at the time.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

17  General Armstrong had found out that there was quite a number of young coloured men and women who were intensely in earnest in wishing to get an education, but who were prevented from entering Hampton Institute because they were too poor to be able to pay any portion of the cost of their board, or even to supply themselves with books.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.