1 I never feel so hopeful about the race as I do after being engaged in a series of these meetings.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 2 With this disappointment I gave up all hope of getting out of the town of Hampton for my vacation work.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 3 Others had secured minor government positions, and still another large class was there in the hope of securing Federal positions.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 4 It seemed to me as I watched this struggle between members of the two races, that there was no hope for our people in this country.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IV. 5 In crossing the street to see a lady from whom I hoped to get some money, I found a bright new twenty-five-cent piece in the middle of the street track.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 6 Despite superficial and temporary signs which might lead one to entertain a contrary opinion, there was never a time when I felt more hopeful for the race than I do at the present.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 7 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. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 8 It is true I had practically no money in my pocket with which to pay for bed or food, but I had hoped in some way to beg my way into the good graces of the landlord, for at that season in the mountains of Virginia the weather was cold, and I wanted to get indoors for the night.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 9 Your words cannot fail to delight and encourage all who wish well for your race; and if our coloured fellow-citizens do not from your utterances gather new hope and form new determinations to gain every valuable advantage offered them by their citizenship, it will be strange indeed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 10 Perhaps I might add right here, what I hope to demonstrate later, that, so far as I know, the Tuskegee school at the present time has no warmer and more enthusiastic friends anywhere than it has among the white citizens of Tuskegee and throughout the state of Alabama and the entire South.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 11 In the presence of hundreds of coloured people, many distinguished white citizens, the City Council, the state Legislature, and state officials, I delivered my message, which was one of hope and cheer; and from the bottom of my heart I thanked both races for this welcome back to the state that gave me birth.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 12 When I told him that I thought that at that time scarcely anything would go farther in giving hope and encouragement to the race than the fact that the President of the Nation would be willing to travel one hundred and forty miles out of his way to spend a day at a Negro institution, he seemed deeply impressed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII.