1 The change of work brings a certain kind of rest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 2 The most of these invitations I declined, for the reason that I wanted to rest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 3 My garden, also, what little time I can be at Tuskegee, is another source of rest and enjoyment.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 4 Mrs. Washington had much the same difficulty in getting away, but she was anxious to go because she thought that I needed the rest.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 5 It is such a rest and relief to get away from crowds of people, and handshaking, and travelling, to get home, even if it be for but a very brief while.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 6 I am often asked how, in the midst of so much work, a large part of which is for the public, I can find time for any rest or recreation, and what kind of recreation or sports I am fond of.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 7 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. 8 Any other course my daily observation in the South convinces me, will be unjust to the Negro, unjust to the white man, and unfair to the rest of the state in the Union, and will be, like slavery, a sin that at some time we shall have to pay for.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 9 In this address I said that the whole future of the Negro rested largely upon the question as to whether or not he should make himself, through his skill, intelligence, and character, of such undeniable value to the community in which he lived that the community could not dispense with his presence.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIII. 10 But, after all this is said, the time when I get the most solid rest and recreation is when I can be at Tuskegee, and, after our evening meal is over, can sit down, as is our custom, with my wife and Portia and Baker and Davidson, my three children, and read a story, or each take turns in telling a story.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 11 The outside world does not know, neither can it appreciate, the struggle that is constantly going on in the hearts of both the Southern white people and their former slaves to free themselves from racial prejudice; and while both races are thus struggling they should have the sympathy, the support, and the forbearance of the rest of the world.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII.