REAL in Classic Quotes

1  It was no sham sorrow, but real.

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

2  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.

3  I like to be sure that I am reading about a real man or a real thing.

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

4  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.

5  This gave us an opportunity of seeing and studying the real life of the people in the country districts.

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

6  Somehow I like, as often as possible, to touch nature, not something that is artificial or an imitation, but the real thing.

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

7  In a word, they did not appear to me to be beginning at the bottom, on a real, solid foundation, to the extent that they were at Hampton.

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

8  The coming of Christmas, that first year of our residence in Alabama, gave us an opportunity to get a farther insight into the real life of the people.

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

9  Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reached the conclusion that often the Negro boy's birth and connection with an unpopular race is an advantage, so far as real life is concerned.

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

10  Since, in the case of the most of these visits, there had been no notice given in advance that a stranger was expected, I had the advantage of seeing the real, everyday life of the people.

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

11  I had no idea that they were so generally loved and respected by the classes, nor had I any correct conception of how much time and money they spent in works of philanthropy, and how much real heart they put into this work.

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

12  I found that during my absence from Hampton the institute each year had been getting closer to the real needs and conditions of our people; that the industrial teaching, as well as that of the academic department, had greatly improved.

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

13  I said that in granting the appropriation Congress could do something that would prove to be of real and lasting value to both races, and that it was the first great opportunity of the kind that had been presented since the close of the Civil War.

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

14  These meetings have given Mrs. Washington and myself an opportunity to get first-hand, accurate information as to the real condition of the race, by seeing the people in their homes, their churches, their Sunday-schools, and their places of work, as well as in the prisons and dens of crime.

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

15  Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.

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

16  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.

17  We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; in our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet small, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all.

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