EXPERIENCE in Classic Quotes

1  One experience I shall long remember.

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

2  I have spoken of my own experience in entering the Hampton Institute.

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

3  This was my first experience in finding out what the colour of my skin meant.

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

4  In the early days of the school I think my most trying experience was in the matter of brickmaking.

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

5  Miss Davidon's experience in the South showed her that the people needed something more than mere book-learning.

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

6  Mr. Campbell is a merchant and banker, and had had little experience in dealing with matters pertaining to education.

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

7  It is almost equal to the feeling that one would experience if he had a dozen or more chestnut burrs, or a hundred small pin-points, in contact with his flesh.

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

8  My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.

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

9  My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.

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

10  I had always sympathized with the "Children of Israel," in their task of "making bricks without straw," but ours was the task of making bricks with no money and no experience.

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

11  I had always supposed that brickmaking was very simple, but I soon found out by bitter experience that it required special skill and knowledge, particularly in the burning of the bricks.

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

12  Of course the coloured people, so largely without education, and wholly without experience in government, made tremendous mistakes, just as many people similarly situated would have done.

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

13  This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race.

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

14  Perhaps few, if any, had anything like the same experience that I had, but about the same period there were hundreds who found their way to Hampton and other institutions after experiencing something of the same difficulties that I went through.

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

15  In regard to this general belief and these statements, I can say that during the nineteen years of my experience at Tuskegee I never, either by word or act, have been treated with disrespect by any student or officer connected with the institution.

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

16  Perhaps no one who has not gone through the experience, month after month, of trying to erect buildings and provide equipment for a school when no one knew where the money was to come from, can properly appreciate the difficulties under which we laboured.

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

17  While I was making this Christmas visit I met an old coloured man who was one of the numerous local preachers, who tried to convince me, from the experience Adam had in the Garden of Eden, that God had cursed all labour, and that, therefore, it was a sin for any man to work.

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