COMMUNITY in Classic Quotes

1  They discovered that we were supplying a real want in the community.

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

2  Every one in the community was so frightened that no one would nurse the boy.

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

3  From the first, I resolved to make the school a real part of the community in which it was located.

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

4  One man may go into a community prepared to supply the people there with an analysis of Greek sentences.

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

5  Quite a number of men in the community also volunteered to give several days' work, each, toward the erection of the building.

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

6  All the industries at Tuskegee have been started in natural and logical order, growing out of the needs of a community settlement.

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

7  I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

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

8  The community may not at the time be prepared for, or feel the need of, Greek analysis, but it may feel its need of bricks and houses and wagons.

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

9  There was a man who was well known in his community as a Negro, but who was so white that even an expert would have hard work to classify him as a black man.

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

10  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.

11  I further contended that, in relation to his vote, the Negro should more and more consider the interests of the community in which he lived, rather than seek alone to please some one who lived a thousand miles away from him and from his interests.

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

12  The supplying of them to the people in the community has had the same effect as the supplying of bricks, and the man who learns at Tuskegee to build and repair wagons and carts is regarded as a benefactor by both races in the community where he goes.

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

13  I have stated in such plain words what I saw, mainly for the reason that later I want to emphasize the encouraging changes that have taken place in the community, not wholly by the work of the Tuskegee school, but by that of other institutions as well.

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

14  The making of these bricks caused many of the white residents of the neighbourhood to begin to feel that the education of the Negro was not making him worthless, but that in educating our students we were adding something to the wealth and comfort of the community.

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

15  Wherever one of our brickmakers has gone in the South, we find that he has something to contribute to the well-being of the community into which he has gone; something that has made the community feel that, in a degree, it is indebted to him, and perhaps, to a certain extent, dependent upon him.

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

16  In this address I said that the whole future of the Negro rested largely upon the question as to whether or not he should make himself, through his skill, intelligence, and character, of such undeniable value to the community in which he lived that the community could not dispense with his presence.

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

17  I noted that just in proportion as we made the white people feel that the institution was a part of the life of the community, and that, while we wanted to make friends in Boston, for example, we also wanted to make white friends in Tuskegee, and that we wanted to make the school of real service to all the people, their attitude toward the school became favourable.

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