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1  In a word, the Negro youth starts out with the presumption against him.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
2  Until I had grown to be quite a youth this single garment was all that I wore.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
3  On going to Hampton, I took up my residence in a building with about seventy-five Indian youths.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.
4  I was asked not long ago to tell something about the sports and pastimes that I engaged in during my youth.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I.
5  The world should not pass judgment upon the Negro, and especially the Negro youth, too quickly or too harshly.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
6  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.
7  I suppose I would care for games now if I had had any time in my youth to give to them, but that was not possible.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XV.
8  With few exceptions, the Negro youth must work harder and must perform his tasks even better than a white youth in order to secure recognition.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
9  The sweeping of that room was my college examination, and never did any youth pass an examination for entrance into Harvard or Yale that gave him more genuine satisfaction.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
10  There was never a time in my youth, no matter how dark and discouraging the days might be, when one resolve did not continually remain with me, and that was a determination to secure an education at any cost.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.
11  Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.
12  If the people who gave the money to provide that building could appreciate the influence the sight of it had upon me, as well as upon thousands of other youths, they would feel all the more encouraged to make such gifts.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.
13  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.
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  I recalled that from my youth I had heard it said that too often, when people of my race reached any degree of success, they were inclined to unduly exalt themselves; to try and ape the wealthy, and in so doing to lose their heads.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.
16  Even as a youth, and later in manhood, I had the feeling that it was cruelly wrong in the central government, at the beginning of our freedom, to fail to make some provision for the general education of our people in addition to what the states might do, so that the people would be the better prepared for the duties of citizenship.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter V.