1 After that kindly introduction I began going North alone to secure funds.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 2 We wanted to teach them to study actual things instead of mere books alone.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 3 In the afternoon Mrs. Washington would speak to the women alone, and in the evening I spoke to a large mass-meeting.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 4 The night-school, started in this manner, has grown until there are at present four hundred and fifty-seven students enrolled in it alone.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 5 The woods were said to be full of soldiers who had deserted from the army, and I had been told that the first thing a deserter did to a Negro boy when he found him alone was to cut off his ears.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 6 Another thing that is becoming more apparent each year in the development of education in the South is the influence of General Armstrong's idea of education; and this not upon the blacks alone, but upon the whites also.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 7 I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 8 I further contended that, in relation to his vote, the Negro should more and more consider the interests of the community in which he lived, rather than seek alone to please some one who lived a thousand miles away from him and from his interests.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 9 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. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 10 At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 11 During the one or two winters that I was with her she gave me an opportunity to go to school for an hour in the day during a portion of the winter months, but most of my studying was done at night, sometimes alone, sometimes under some one whom I could hire to teach me.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 12 I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elements could permanently succeed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII.