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1 This was my first experience in finding out what the colour of my skin meant.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
2 The difference that the colour of one's skin would make I had not thought anything about.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter III.
3 When this man of culture and voice and power, as well as a dark skin, began, and uttered the names of Stearns and of Andrew, feeling began to mount.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XV.
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 AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter X.
5 One reason for this was that any one who worked in a coal-mine was always unclean, at least while at work, and it was a very hard job to get one's skin clean after the day's work was over.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter II.
6 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 AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter II.
7 But the degree was not conferred because Mr. Washington is a coloured man, or because he was born in slavery, but because he has shown, by his work for the elevation of the people of the Black Belt of the South, a genius and a broad humanity which count for greatness in any man, whether his skin be white or black.
Up From Slavery: An AutobiographyBy Booker T. Washington ContextHighlight In Chapter XVII.