1 The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 2 No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 3 The Atlanta officials went as far as they did because they felt it to be a pleasure, as well as a duty, to reward what they considered merit in the Negro race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 4 My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter X. 5 Say what we will, there is something in human nature which we cannot blot out, which makes one man, in the end, recognize and reward merit in another, regardless of colour or race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 6 To me it had been a long, eventful journey; but the first sight of the large, three-story, brick school building seemed to have rewarded me for all that I had undergone in order to reach the place.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 7 Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter II. 8 When a Negro girl learns to cook, to wash dishes, to sew, or write a book, or a Negro boy learns to groom horses, or to grow sweet potatoes, or to produce butter, or to build a house, or to be able to practise medicine, as well or better than some one else, they will be rewarded regardless of race or colour.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI.