1 The work to be done in order to lift these people up seemed almost beyond accomplishing.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 2 The great and prevailing idea that seemed to take possession of every one was to prepare himself to lift up the people at his home.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 3 All this, it seems to me, makes it important that the whole Nation lend a hand in trying to lift the burden of ignorance from the South.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XI. 4 More than once, during a cold night, when a stiff gale would be blowing, our tent was lifted bodily, and we would find ourselves in the open air.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 5 The receipt of this draft for ten thousand dollars, under all these circumstances, partially lifted a burden that had been pressing down upon me for days.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 6 An example of what I mean is shown in a story told of George Washington, who, meeting a coloured man in the road once, who politely lifted his hat, lifted his own in return.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 7 If my life in the past has meant anything in the lifting up of my people and the bringing about of better relations between your race and mine, I assure you from this day it will mean doubly more.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 8 I have spoken of my admiration for General Armstrong, and yet he was but a type of that Christlike body of men and women who went into the Negro schools at the close of the war by the hundreds to assist in lifting up my race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 9 How often I have wanted to say to white students that they lift themselves up in proportion as they help to lift others, and the more unfortunate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one's self by giving the assistance.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VI. 10 As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me, of a pound a minute.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVI. 11 Of one thing I felt more strongly convinced than ever, after spending this month in seeing the actual life of the coloured people, and that was that, in order to lift them up, something must be done more than merely to imitate New England education as it then existed.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 12 The more we saw of them, and the more we travelled through the country districts, the more we saw that our efforts were reaching, to only a partial degree, the actual needs of the people whom we wanted to lift up through the medium of the students whom we should educate and send out as leaders.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII.