ADDRESS in Classic Quotes

1  The principal address was delivered by the Hon.

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

2  With much care I prepared the best address that I was capable of.

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

3  My invitation to speak in Atlanta stipulated that I was to confine my address to five minutes.

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

4  I determined never to say anything in a public address in the North that I would not be willing to say in the South.

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

5  A few days afterward he sent me an invitation to deliver an address at the next meeting of the Educational Association.

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

6  This address at Madison was the first that I had delivered that in any large measure dealt with the general problem of the races.

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

7  I refer to the address which I delivered at the opening of the Atlanta Cotton states and International Exposition, at Atlanta, Ga.

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

8  The question, then, was whether or not I could put enough into a five-minute address to make it worth while for me to make such a trip.

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

9  The Atlanta papers of the next day commented in friendly terms on my address, and a good deal was said about it in different parts of the country.

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

10  The address which I delivered on Commencement Day seems to have pleased every one, and many kind and encouraging words were spoken to me regarding it.

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

11  These white people afterward frankly told me that they went to this meeting expecting to hear the South roundly abused, but were pleasantly surprised to find that there was no word of abuse in my address.

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

12  The address which I delivered at Madison, before the National Educational Association, gave me a rather wide introduction in the North, and soon after that opportunities began offering themselves for me to address audiences there.

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

13  Such, in brief, were some of the views I advocated in this first address dealing with the broad question of the relations of the two races, and since that time I have not found any reason for changing my views on any important point.

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

14  The boldness of what I had done never dawned upon me until I saw the picture made by the rector of Trinity Church standing before that large audience under an old umbrella, waiting for the rain to cease so that he could go on with his address.

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

15  In this address at Madison I took the ground that the policy to be pursued with references to the races was, by every honourable means, to bring them together and to encourage the cultivation of friendly relations, instead of doing that which would embitter.

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

16  Still, after looking over my list of dates and places carefully, I found that I could take a train from Boston that would get me into Atlanta about thirty minutes before my address was to be delivered, and that I could remain in that city before taking another train for Boston.

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

17  In this address I said that the whole future of the Negro rested largely upon the question as to whether or not he should make himself, through his skill, intelligence, and character, of such undeniable value to the community in which he lived that the community could not dispense with his presence.

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