CHARACTER in Classic Quotes

1  I could relate many instances of almost the same character.

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

2  Some of them, like ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, were men of high character and usefulness.

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

3  The improvement that has taken place in the character of the teachers is even more marked than in the case of the ministers.

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

4  The improvement in the character and life of the Negro ministers is one of the most gratifying evidences of the progress of the race.

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

5  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.

6  With few exceptions, I found the teachers in these country schools to be miserably poor in preparation for their work, and poor in moral character.

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

7  This first visit which General Armstrong made to Tuskegee gave me an opportunity to get an insight into his character such as I had not before had.

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

8  The coloured people and the coloured newspapers at first seemed to be greatly pleased with the character of my Atlanta address, as well as with its reception.

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

9  What I have said concerning the character of the schoolhouses and teachers will also apply quite accurately as a description of the church buildings and the ministers.

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

10  Washington's address yesterday was one of the most notable speeches, both as to character and as to the warmth of its reception, ever delivered to a Southern audience.

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

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  But, I repeat, in many communities in the South the character of the ministry is being improved, and I believe that within the next two or three decades a very large proportion of the unworthy ones will have disappeared.

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

13  My own belief is, although I have never before said so in so many words, that the time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

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

14  Soon after her graduation from the Framingham institution, Miss Davidson came to Tuskegee, bringing into the school many valuable and fresh ideas as to the best methods of teaching, as well as a rare moral character and a life of unselfishness that I think has seldom been equalled.

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

15  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.

16  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. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

17  I do not believe that the Negro should cease voting, for a man cannot learn the exercise of self-government by ceasing to vote, any more than a boy can learn to swim by keeping out of the water, but I do believe that in his voting he should more and more be influenced by those of intelligence and character who are his next-door neighbours.

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