CONDITION in Classic Quotes

1  Marshall, and told him frankly my condition.

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

2  Both the church and the shanty were in about as bad condition as was possible.

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

3  I have said that I believe it is the duty of every one to keep his body in good condition.

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

4  Our clothing went uncared for, and everything about our home was soon in a tumble-down condition.

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

5  Notwithstanding the poor condition of our plantation cabin, we were at all times sure of pure air.

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

6  As soon as we got the cabins in condition to be used, I determined to clear up some land so that we could plant a crop.

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

7  I am often asked to express myself more freely than I do upon the political condition and the political future of my race.

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

8  They were happy in the privilege of being permitted to enjoy any kind of opportunity that would enable them to improve their condition.

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

9  These cabins were in a dilapidated condition, and during the winter months the students who occupied them necessarily suffered from the cold.

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

10  The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished.

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

11  I do not believe that any state should make a law that permits an ignorant and poverty-stricken white man to vote, and prevents a black man in the same condition from voting.

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

12  She felt that things would not be in condition for the opening of school unless every window-pane was perfectly clean, and she took the greatest satisfaction in helping to clean them herself.

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

13  He has always shown a degree of unselfishness and an amount of business tact, coupled with a clear judgment, that has kept the school in good condition no matter how long I have been absent from it.

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

14  Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long.

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

15  I talked with him about Africa and its relation to the American Negro, and after my interview with him I became more convinced than ever that there was no hope of the American Negro's improving his condition by emigrating to Africa.

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

16  He conceived the idea of starting a night-school in connection with the Institute, into which a limited number of the most promising of these young men and women would be received, on condition that they were to work for ten hours during the day, and attend school for two hours at night.

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

17  These meetings have given Mrs. Washington and myself an opportunity to get first-hand, accurate information as to the real condition of the race, by seeing the people in their homes, their churches, their Sunday-schools, and their places of work, as well as in the prisons and dens of crime.

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