INDUSTRY in Classic Quotes

1  The slave owner and his sons had mastered no special industry.

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

2  These girls were taught by their mothers, in rather a crude way it is true, the industry of laundrying.

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

3  As soon as we got the farm work reasonably well started, we directed our next efforts toward the industry of making bricks.

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

4  My old master had many boys and girls, but not one, so far as I know, ever mastered a single trade or special line of productive industry.

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

5  We needed these for use in connection with the erection of our own buildings; but there was also another reason for establishing this industry.

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

6  At that time salt-mining was the great industry in that part of West Virginia, and the little town of Malden was right in the midst of the salt-furnaces.

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

7  It was further required that they must work for ten hours during the day at some trade or industry, and study academic branches for two hours during the evening.

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

8  In this way they would obtain a start in their books and a knowledge of some trade or industry, in addition to the other far-reaching benefits of the institution.

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

9  The "calls" to preach, I am glad to say, are not nearly so numerous now as they were formerly, and the calls to some industrial occupation are growing more numerous.

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

10  By this time it had gotten to be pretty well advertised throughout the state that every student who came to Tuskegee, no matter what his financial ability might be, must learn some industry.

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

11  Brickmaking has now become such an important industry at the school that last season our students manufactured twelve hundred thousand of first-class bricks, of a quality suitable to be sold in any market.

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

12  Even then I had a strong feeling that what our people most needed was to get a foundation in education, industry, and property, and for this I felt that they could better afford to strive than for political preferment.

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

13  Aside from this, we wanted to give them such a practical knowledge of some one industry, together with the spirit of industry, thrift, and economy, that they would be sure of knowing how to make a living after they had left us.

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

14  I heard one tell the other that not only was the school established for the members of any race, but the opportunities that it provided by which poor but worthy students could work out all or a part of the cost of a board, and at the same time be taught some trade or industry.

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

15  What is equally important, each one of the students works half of each day at some industry, in order to get skill and the love of work, so that when he goes out from the institution he is prepared to set the people with whom he goes to labour a proper example in the matter of industry.

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

16  I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elements could permanently succeed.

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

17  I am glad to say that the industry of mattress-making has grown steadily since then, and has been improved to such an extent that at the present time it is an important branch of the work which is taught systematically to a number of our girls, and that the mattresses that now come out of the mattress-shop at Tuskegee are about as good as those bought in the average store.

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