HELP in Classic Quotes

1  He willingly neglected his own education that he might help me.

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

2  I now felt that I had the opportunity to help the people of my home town to a higher life.

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

3  In order to help remedy the difficulty, the General conceived the plan of putting up tents to be used as rooms.

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

4  It was my earnest wish to help him to prepare to enter Hampton, and to save money to assist him in his expenses there.

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

5  I went at once to the vessel and asked the captain to permit me to help unload the vessel in order to get money for food.

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

6  I have referred to the disposition on the part of the white people in the town of Tuskegee and vicinity to help the school.

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

7  It was a constant delight to me to note the interest which the coloured students took in trying to help the Indians in every way possible.

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

8  My mother sympathized with me in my disappointment, and sought to comfort me in all the ways she could, and to help me find a way to learn.

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

9  At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character-building.

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

10  The fact that the individual has behind and surrounding him proud family history and connection serves as a stimulus to help him to overcome obstacles when striving for success.

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

11  As I was not strong enough to reload the corn upon the horse, I would have to wait, sometimes for many hours, till a chance passer-by came along who would help me out of my trouble.

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

12  Before this I had never cared a great deal about it, but now I learned to love to read the Bible, not only for the spiritual help which it gives, but on account of it as literature.

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

13  At the end of my first year with the Indians there came another opening for me at Hampton, which, as I look back over my life now, seems to have come providentially, to help to prepare me for my work at Tuskegee later.

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

14  At the end of my second year at Hampton, by the help of some money sent me by my mother and brother John, supplemented by a small gift from one of the teachers at Hampton, I was enabled to return to my home in Malden, West Virginia, to spend my vacation.

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

15  How often I have wanted to say to white students that they lift themselves up in proportion as they help to lift others, and the more unfortunate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one's self by giving the assistance.

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

16  In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites.

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

17  As usual, I put the case before my mother, and she explained to me that she had no money with which to buy a "store hat," which was a rather new institution at that time among the members of my race and was considered quite the thing for young and old to own, but that she would find a way to help me out of the difficulty.

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