WILL 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  My case will illustrate that of hundreds of thousands of black people in every part of our country.

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

3  The time is not far distant when the whole South will appreciate this service in a way that it has not yet been able to do.

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

4  To get around this difficulty I yielded to a temptation for which most people, I suppose, will condemn me; but since it is a fact, I might as well state it.

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

5  The "cat-hole" was a square opening, about seven by eight inches, provided for the purpose of letting the cat pass in and out of the house at will during the night.

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

6  What I have said concerning the character of the schoolhouses and teachers will also apply quite accurately as a description of the church buildings and the ministers.

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

7  I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.

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

8  Many of the Southern whites have a feeling that, if the Negro is permitted to exercise his political rights now to any degree, the mistakes of the Reconstruction period will repeat themselves.

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

9  I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

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

10  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.

11  But, I repeat, in many communities in the South the character of the ministry is being improved, and I believe that within the next two or three decades a very large proportion of the unworthy ones will have disappeared.

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

12  When I saw the conductor examining the feet of the man in question, I said to myself, "That will settle it;" and so it did, for the trainman promptly decided that the passenger was a Negro, and let him remain where he was.

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

13  If one goes to-day into any Southern town, and asks for the leading and most reliable coloured man in the community, I believe that in five cases out of ten he will be directed to a Negro who learned a trade during the days of slavery.

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

14  Any other course my daily observation in the South convinces me, will be unjust to the Negro, unjust to the white man, and unfair to the rest of the state in the Union, and will be, like slavery, a sin that at some time we shall have to pay for.

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

15  I do not think this would be true, because the Negro is a much stronger and wiser man than he was thirty-five years ago, and he is fast learning the lesson that he cannot afford to act in a manner that will alienate his Southern white neighbours from him.

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

16  More and more I am convinced that the final solution of the political end of our race problem will be for each state that finds it necessary to change the law bearing upon the franchise to make the law apply with absolute honesty, and without opportunity for double dealing or evasion, to both races alike.

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

17  I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless he has individual worth, and mere connection with what is regarded as an inferior race will not finally hold an individual back if he possesses intrinsic, individual merit.

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