1 All this made me proceed very cautiously, for I felt keenly the great responsibility.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 2 In our case I felt a double responsibility, and this made the anxiety all the more intense.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 3 It electrified the audience, and the response was as if it had come from the throat of a whirlwind.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 4 The fact of my being responsible for the repaying of such a large amount of money weighed very heavily upon me.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 5 Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 6 The receiving of this invitation brought to me a sense of responsibility that it would be hard for any one not placed in my position to appreciate.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 7 No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 8 The great responsibility of being free, of having charge of themselves, of having to think and plan for themselves and their children, seemed to take possession of them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter I. 9 Marshall, the Treasurer of the Hampton Institute, putting the situation before him and beseeching him to lend me the two hundred and fifty dollars on my own personal responsibility.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 10 The officials of the Exposition were anxious that I should assume this responsibility, but I declined to do so, on the plea that the work at Tuskegee at that time demanded my time and strength.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 11 I was determined that no one should have the feeling that it was a foreign institution, dropped down in the midst of the people, for which they had no responsibility and in which they had no interest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter IX. 12 A year previous to this Mr. Garrison had attempted to get me to promise to go to Europe for a summer's rest, with the understanding that he would be responsible for raising the money among his friends for the expenses of the trip.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 13 Imagine my surprise when the General told me, further, that these meetings were to be held, not in the interests of Hampton, but in the interests of Tuskegee, and that the Hampton Institute was to be responsible for all the expenses.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 14 Aside from these two enterprises, Mrs. Washington is also largely responsible for a woman's club at the school which brings together, twice a month, the women who live on the school grounds and those who live near, for the discussion of some important topic.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 15 As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me, of a pound a minute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 16 At Hampton it was a standing rule that, while the institution would be responsible for securing some one to pay the tuition for the students, the men and women themselves must provide for their own board, books, clothing, and room wholly by work, or partly by work and partly in cash.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 17 Jessup, the treasurer of the Slater Fund, I refer to because I know of no man of wealth and large and complicated business responsibilities who gives not only money but his time and thought to the subject of the proper method of elevating the Negro to the extent that is true of Mr. Jessup.
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