OPPORTUNITY in Classic Quotes

1  This was just the opportunity I wanted.

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

2  I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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

3  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.

4  She passed away, however, before she had an opportunity of seeing what the school was designed to be.

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

5  One boy won the case by proving that for three mornings he had not had an opportunity to use the cup at all.

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

6  But my boyish heart was still set upon going to the day-school, and I let no opportunity slip to push my case.

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

7  No student, I think, who has had the opportunity of doing this could go out into the world and content himself with the poorest grades.

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

8  The coming of Christmas, that first year of our residence in Alabama, gave us an opportunity to get a farther insight into the real life of the people.

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

9  There were so many of the older boys and girls in the town, as well as men and women, who had to work in the daytime and still were craving an opportunity for an education, that I soon opened a night-school.

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

10  Through Mrs. Hemenway's kindness and generosity, Miss Davidson, after graduating at Hampton, received an opportunity to complete a two years' course of training at the Massachusetts State Normal School at Framingham.

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

11  I gave little heed to these protests, except that I lost no opportunity to go into as many parts of the state as I could, for the purpose of speaking to the parents, and showing them the value of industrial education.

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

12  As I now recall the scene of my first year, I do not believe that one often has the opportunity of coming into contact with three or four hundred men and women who were so tremendously in earnest as these men and women were.

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

13  One might have removed from Hampton all the buildings, class-rooms, teachers, and industries, and given the men and women there the opportunity of coming into daily contact with General Armstrong, and that alone would have been a liberal education.

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

14  At the institution I attended there was no industrial training given to the students, and I had an opportunity of comparing the influence of an institution with no industrial training with that of one like the Hampton Institute, that emphasizes the industries.

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

15  During the one or two winters that I was with her she gave me an opportunity to go to school for an hour in the day during a portion of the winter months, but most of my studying was done at night, sometimes alone, sometimes under some one whom I could hire to teach me.

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

16  More and more I am convinced that the final solution of the political end of our race problem will be for each state that finds it necessary to change the law bearing upon the franchise to make the law apply with absolute honesty, and without opportunity for double dealing or evasion, to both races alike.

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

17  Many children of the tenderest years were compelled then, as is now true I fear, in most coal-mining districts, to spend a large part of their lives in these coal-mines, with little opportunity to get an education; and, what is worse, I have often noted that, as a rule, young boys who begin life in a coal-mine are often physically and mentally dwarfed.

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