WHITE in Classic Quotes

1  When a white boy undertakes a task, it is taken for granted that he will succeed.

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

2  Often the slaves got knowledge of the results of great battles before the white people received it.

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

3  I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the near-by plantations.

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

4  Some of our neighbours were coloured people, and some were the poorest and most ignorant and degraded white people.

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

5  The slave system on our place, in a large measure, took the spirit of self-reliance and self-help out of the white people.

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

6  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.

7  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.

8  I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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

9  At that time there was not a single member of my race anywhere near us who could read, and I was too timid to approach any of the white people.

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

10  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.

11  In those days, and later as a young man, I used to try to picture in my imagination the feelings and ambitions of a white boy with absolutely no limit placed upon his aspirations and activities.

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

12  Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

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

13  The very fact that the white boy is conscious that, if he fails in life, he will disgrace the whole family record, extending back through many generations, is of tremendous value in helping him to resist temptations.

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

14  Those who constantly direct attention to the Negro youth's moral weaknesses, and compare his advancement with that of white youths, do not consider the influence of the memories which cling about the old family homesteads.

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

15  The man who was sent to the office would linger about the place long enough to get the drift of the conversation from the group of white people who naturally congregated there, after receiving their mail, to discuss the latest news.

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

16  The mail-carrier on his way back to our master's house would as naturally retail the news that he had secured among the slaves, and in this way they often heard of important events before the white people at the "big house," as the master's house was called.

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

17  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.