OTHERS in Classic Quotes

1  Bruce, Governor Pinchback, and many others, were strong, upright, useful men.

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

2  Some of these older people would give me a nickel, others a quarter, or a handkerchief.

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

3  "Mars' Billy" had begged for mercy in the case of others when the overseer or master was thrashing them.

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

4  This was so, however, not because my owners were especially cruel, for they were not, as compared with many others.

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

5  Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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

6  The lesson that my mother taught me in this has always remained with me, and I have tried as best as I could to teach it to others.

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

7  It was hard for me to understand how any individuals could bring themselves to the point where they could be so happy in working for others.

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

8  I remember that the first coloured man whom I saw who knew something about foreign languages impressed me at the time as being a man of all others to be envied.

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

9  From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.

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

10  At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

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

11  The first night I slept under both of them, and the second night I slept on top of them; but by watching the other boys I learned my lesson in this, and have been trying to follow it ever since and to teach it to others.

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

12  In the plantation districts I found that, as a rule, the whole family slept in one room, and that in addition to the immediate family there sometimes were relatives, or others not related to the family, who slept in the same room.

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

13  Two of these, on the front seat, were using the book between them; behind these were two others peeping over the shoulders of the first two, and behind the four was a fifth little fellow who was peeping over the shoulders of all four.

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

14  I recall that one man, who seemed to have been designated by the others to look after my political destiny, came to me on several occasions and said, with a good deal of earnestness: "We wants you to be sure to vote jes' like we votes."

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

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  I recall that during the first months of school that I taught in this building it was in such poor repair that, whenever it rained, one of the older students would very kindly leave his lessons and hold an umbrella over me while I heard the recitations of the others.

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

17  I have noted the fact, but without satisfaction, I need not add, that several of the boys who began their careers with "store hats" and who were my schoolmates and used to join in the sport that was made of me because I had only a "homespun" cap, have ended their careers in the penitentiary, while others are not able now to buy any kind of hat.

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