WAR in Classic Quotes

1  Finally the war closed, and the day of freedom came.

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

2  Of course as the war was prolonged the white people, in many cases, often found it difficult to secure food for themselves.

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

3  Naturally much of the conversation of the white people turned upon the subject of freedom and the war, and I absorbed a good deal of it.

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

4  In some way, during the war, by running away and following the Federal soldiers, it seems, he found his way into the new state of West Virginia.

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

5  In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

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

6  In the general rejoicing throughout the country which followed the close of the Spanish-American war, peace celebrations were arranged in several of the large cities.

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

7  As to how my address at Atlanta was received by the audience in the Exposition building, I think I prefer to let Mr. James Creelman, the noted war correspondent, tell.

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

8  When war was begun between the North and the South, every slave on our plantation felt and knew that, though other issues were discussed, the primal one was that of slavery.

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

9  The part of the speech which seems to arouse the wildest and most sensational enthusiasm was that in which I thanked the President for his recognition of the Negro in his appointments during the Spanish-American war.

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

10  Though I was a mere child during the preparation for the Civil War and during the war itself, I now recall the many late-at-night whispered discussions that I heard my mother and the other slaves on the plantation indulge in.

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

11  I have spoken of my admiration for General Armstrong, and yet he was but a type of that Christlike body of men and women who went into the Negro schools at the close of the war by the hundreds to assist in lifting up my race.

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

12  President William McKinley attended this meeting, as did also the members of his Cabinet, many foreign ministers, and a large number of army and navy officers, many of whom had distinguished themselves in the war which had just closed.

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

13  Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the northern armies conquered.

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

14  One may get the idea, from what I have said, that there was bitter feeling toward the white people on the part of my race, because of the fact that most of the white population was away fighting in a war which would result in keeping the Negro in slavery if the South was successful.

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

15  As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some reason have become poor and dependent since the war.

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

16  When Mr. Washington rose in the flag-filled, enthusiasm-warmed, patriotic, and glowing atmosphere of Music Hall, people felt keenly that here was the civic justification of the old abolition spirit of Massachusetts; in his person the proof of her ancient and indomitable faith; in his strong thought and rich oratory, the crown and glory of the old war days of suffering and strife.

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

17  I think the slaves felt the deprivation less than the whites, because the usual diet for slaves was corn bread and pork, and these could be raised on the plantation; but coffee, tea, sugar, and other articles which the whites had been accustomed to use could not be raised on the plantation, and the conditions brought about by the war frequently made it impossible to secure these things.

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