ABLE in Classic Quotes

1  Now I was able to ride the whole distance in the train.

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

2  I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

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

3  Simply to be able to talk in public for the sake of talking has never had the least attraction to me.

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

4  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.

5  When I left school at the end of my first year, I owed the institution sixteen dollars that I had not been able to work out.

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

6  Aside from a very few dollars that my brother John was able to send me once in a while, I had no money with which to pay my board.

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

7  The state had not been able to build schoolhouses in the country districts, and, as a rule, the schools were taught in churches or in log cabins.

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

8  Many of the students, also, were able to remain in school but a few weeks at a time, because they had so little money with which to pay their board.

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

9  From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

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

10  My sister Amanda, although she tried to do the best she could, was too young to know anything about keeping house, and my stepfather was not able to hire a housekeeper.

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

11  One of the chief ambitions which spurred me on at Hampton was that I might be able to get to be in a position in which I could better make my mother comfortable and happy.

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

12  The mine was divided into a large number of different "rooms" or departments, and, as I never was able to learn the location of all these "rooms," I many times found myself lost in the mine.

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

13  In fact, I consider that there is nothing so empty and unsatisfactory as mere abstract public speaking; but from my early childhood I have had a desire to do something to make the world better, and then to be able to speak to the world about that thing.

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

14  Thus another object which made it desirable to get an industrial system started was in order to make it available as a means of helping the students to earn money enough so that they might be able to remain in school during the nine months' session of the school year.

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

15  In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country.

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

16  General Armstrong had found out that there was quite a number of young coloured men and women who were intensely in earnest in wishing to get an education, but who were prevented from entering Hampton Institute because they were too poor to be able to pay any portion of the cost of their board, or even to supply themselves with books.

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

17  I have noted the fact, but without satisfaction, I need not add, that several of the boys who began their careers with "store hats" and who were my schoolmates and used to join in the sport that was made of me because I had only a "homespun" cap, have ended their careers in the penitentiary, while others are not able now to buy any kind of hat.

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