SPEAK in Classic Quotes

1  Bicknell, was present at one of those meetings and heard me speak.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

2  My invitation to speak in Atlanta stipulated that I was to confine my address to five minutes.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

3  In addition to this I had to speak before the church and Sunday-school, and at various other places.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

4  The man who was the innocent cause of the excitement, though, found it prudent after that not to speak English.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

5  It has been my aim to have them speak with directness and frankness about anything that concerns the life of the school.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

6  When this invitation came to me, I had engagements in Boston that seemed to make it impossible for me to speak in Atlanta.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

7  I was anxious, however, that the way might also be opened for me to speak directly to a representative Southern white audience.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

8  I was asked now to speak to an audience composed of the wealth and culture of the white South, the representatives of my former masters.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

9  In all my acquaintance with General Armstrong I never heard him speak, in public or in private, a single bitter word against the white man in the South.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XI.

10  Whenever they were asked to do so, the Negro students gladly took the Indians as room-mates, in order that they might teach them to speak English and to acquire civilized habits.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

11  It seems that when I went North with General Armstrong to speak at the series of public meetings to which I have referred, the President of the National Educational Association, the Hon.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

12  On arriving there I found that the General had decided to take a quartette of singers through the North, and hold meetings for a month in important cities, at which meetings he and I were to speak.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

13  It was only a few years before that time that any white man in the audience might have claimed me as his slave; and it was easily possible that some of my former owners might be present to hear me speak.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

14  I knew, too, that this was the first time in the entire history of the Negro that a member of my race had been asked to speak from the same platform with white Southern men and women on any important National occasion.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

15  In fact, I consider that there is nothing so empty and unsatisfactory as mere abstract public speaking; but from my early childhood I have had a desire to do something to make the world better, and then to be able to speak to the world about that thing.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

16  I knew that the audience would be largely composed of the most influential class of white men and women, and that it would be a rare opportunity for me to let them know what we were trying to do at Tuskegee, as well as to speak to them about the relations of the races.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.

17  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 Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XIII.