YEARS in Classic Quotes

1  In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did.

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

2  Some of the slaves were seventy or eighty years old; their best days were gone.

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

3  It was very much like suddenly turning a youth of ten or twelve years out into the world to provide for himself.

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

4  With this end in view men and women who were fifty or seventy-five years old would often be found in the night-school.

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

5  The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin, were not very different from those of thousands of other slaves.

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

6  The efforts of some of the men and women, who in many cases were over fifty years of age, to learn, were in some cases very pathetic.

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

7  I know of instances where the former masters of slaves have for years been supplied with money by their former slaves to keep them from suffering.

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

8  In three years my brother finished the course at Hampton, and he is now holding the important position of Superintendent of Industries at Tuskegee.

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

9  My own experiences in the night-school gave me faith in the night-school idea, with which, in after years, I had to do both at Hampton and Tuskegee.

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

10  Many years after that the coloured citizens of Richmond very kindly tendered me a reception at which there must have been two thousand people present.

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

11  No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

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

12  For several years my mother had not been in good health, but I had no idea, when I parted from her the previous day, that I should never see her alive again.

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

13  My mother and the other members of my family were, of course, much rejoiced to see me and to note the improvement that I had made during my two years' absence.

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

14  In connection with the flax shirt, my brother John, who is several years older than I am, performed one of the most generous acts that I ever heard of one slave relative doing for another.

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

15  From the time of our parting till their death we kept up a correspondence with the older members of the family, and in later years we have kept in touch with those who were the younger members.

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

16  I found that this man had made a contract with his master, two or three years previous to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the effect that the slave was to be permitted to buy himself, by paying so much per year for his body; and while he was paying for himself, he was to be permitted to labour where and for whom he pleased.

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

17  Many children of the tenderest years were compelled then, as is now true I fear, in most coal-mining districts, to spend a large part of their lives in these coal-mines, with little opportunity to get an education; and, what is worse, I have often noted that, as a rule, young boys who begin life in a coal-mine are often physically and mentally dwarfed.

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