IGNORE in Classic Quotes

1  At that time I was rather ignorant of the ways of the world.

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

2  Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people.

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

3  All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South.

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

4  In my ignorance I supposed that the little hotel existed for the purpose of accommodating the passengers who travelled on the stage-coach.

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

5  In their poverty and ignorance it was pathetic to see their attempts to get joy out of the season that in most parts of the country is so sacred and so dear to the heart.

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

6  He secured from the reservations in the Western states over one hundred wild and for the most part perfectly ignorant Indians, the greater proportion of whom were young men.

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

7  These good ladies were perfectly ignorant, it seems, of the customs of the South, and in the goodness of their hearts insisted that I take a seat with them in their section.

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

8  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.

9  While the coloured people were ignorant, they had not, as a rule, degraded and weakened their bodies by vices such as are common to the lower class of people in the large cities.

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

10  Though she was totally ignorant, she had high ambitions for her children, and a large fund of good, hard, common sense, which seemed to enable her to meet and master every situation.

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

11  My ignorance of how to wait upon them was so apparent that they scolded me in such a severe manner that I became frightened and left their table, leaving them sitting there without food.

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

12  The slaves, of course, had little personal interest in the life of the plantation, and their ignorance prevented them from learning how to do things in the most improved and thorough manner.

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

13  When we add the number of wholly ignorant men who preached or "exhorted" to that of those who possessed something of an education, it can be seen at a glance that the supply of ministers was large.

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

14  Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the northern armies conquered.

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

15  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.

16  In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country.

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

17  We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.

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