1 This decision seemed to cloud my every ambition.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 2 The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 3 They soon lose ambition to do anything else than to continue as a coal-miner.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 4 I have always had more of an ambition to do things than merely to talk about doing them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 5 The great ambition of the older people was to try to learn to read the Bible before they died.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 6 It was my greatest ambition during the summer to save money enough with which to pay this debt.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 7 In all my efforts to learn to read my mother shared fully my ambition, and sympathized with me and aided me in every way that she could.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 8 The members of this class had little ambition to create a position for themselves, but wanted the Federal officials to create one for them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 9 From the first, my wife most earnestly devoted her thoughts and time to the work of the school, and was completely one with me in every interest and ambition.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 10 One of the chief ambitions which spurred me on at Hampton was that I might be able to get to be in a position in which I could better make my mother comfortable and happy.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 11 Though she was totally ignorant, she had high ambitions for her children, and a large fund of good, hard, common sense, which seemed to enable her to meet and master every situation.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 12 In those days, and later as a young man, I used to try to picture in my imagination the feelings and ambitions of a white boy with absolutely no limit placed upon his aspirations and activities.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 13 I resolved at once to go to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to Hampton.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 14 The more we talked with the students, who were then coming to us from several parts of the state, the more we found that the chief ambition among a large proportion of them was to get an education so that they would not have to work any longer with their hands.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 15 At that time those cakes seemed to me to be absolutely the most tempting and desirable things that I had ever seen; and I then and there resolved that, if I ever got free, the height of my ambition would be reached if I could get to the point where I could secure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I.