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1 I think that the according of the full exercise of political rights is going to be a matter of natural, slow growth, not an over-night, gourd-vine affair.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.
2 They seemed to feel that I had been too liberal in my remarks toward the Southern whites, and that I had not spoken out strongly enough for what they termed the "rights" of my race.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.
3 Many of the Southern whites have a feeling that, if the Negro is permitted to exercise his political rights now to any degree, the mistakes of the Reconstruction period will repeat themselves.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter V.
4 My own belief is, although I have never before said so in so many words, that the time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.
5 I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights or privileges, or certain badges of distinction, on the ground simply that they were members of this or that race, regardless of their own individual worth or attainments.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter II.
6 Of course there were those who were opposed to any such recognition of the rights of the Negro, but the Board of Directors, composed of men who represented the best and most progressive element in the South, had their way, and voted to invite a black man to speak on the opening day.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XIII.
7 I think, though, that the opportunity to freely exercise such political rights will not come in any large degree through outside or artificial forcing, but will be accorded to the Negro by the Southern white people themselves, and that they will protect him in the exercise of those rights.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.