GENERAL in Classic Quotes

1  Mrs. Viola Ruffner, the wife of General Ruffner, was a "Yankee" woman from Vermont.

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

2  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.

3  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.

4  In order to help remedy the difficulty, the General conceived the plan of putting up tents to be used as rooms.

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

5  While at work there, I heard of a vacant position in the household of General Lewis Ruffner, the owner of the salt-furnace and coal-mine.

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

6  No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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

7  The General would usually pay a visit to the tents early in the morning, and his earnest, cheerful, encouraging voice would dispel any feeling of despondency.

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

8  It was my privilege to know the General personally from the time I entered Hampton till he died, and the more I saw of him the greater he grew in my estimation.

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

9  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.

10  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.

11  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.

12  There must have been not far from a hundred persons engaged on each side; many on both sides were seriously injured, among them General Lewis Ruffner, the husband of my friend Mrs. Viola Ruffner.

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

13  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.

14  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.

15  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.

16  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.

17  When he was a guest at my home in Alabama, and was so badly paralyzed that he had to be wheeled about in an invalid's chair, I recall that one of the General's former students had occasion to push his chair up a long, steep hill that taxed his strength to the utmost.

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