"Booker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... whites as servant and master. They were taught Christ by as fair representatives of his religion as the world has ever seen. The negroes were brought under law, and were forced to see the blessings of order and justice. As Booker Washington also admits, they were taught the value of work and its necessity. So, through slavery the negro in the United States to-day stands far above the wild and ignorant African who now inhabits the land from which he came. When ...
— Church work among the Negroes in the South - The Hale Memorial Sermon No. 2 • Robert Strange
... industrial being, and held him in the habit of industry for several generations. Perhaps only force could do this, for it was a radical transformation. I am glad to see that this result of slavery is recognized by Mr. Booker Washington, the ablest and most clear-sighted leader the ...
— Quotes and Images From The Works of Charles Dudley Warner • Charles Dudley Warner
... woone year, An' people went, bwoth high an' low, To zee the zight, vrom vur an' near, "O well," cried Bloom, "why I've a right So well's the rest to zee the zight; I'll goo, an' teaeke the rail outright." "Your feaere," the booker cried; "There, there," good Bloom replied; "Why this June het do meaeke woone zweat," Cried worthy Bloom ...
— Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect • William Barnes
... blast, overwhelming the whole institution and setting every bondman free. Indeed, there are multitudes of fairly intelligent people who believe that slaveholding in this country ceased the very day and hour the proclamation appeared. In a recent magazine article, so intelligent a man as Booker Washington speaks of a Kentucky slave family as being emancipated by Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, when, in fact, the proclamation never applied to Kentucky ...
— The Abolitionists - Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights • John F. Hume
... help himself, is the key-note of these efforts. The time is coming—yea, it has come already—when to the name of Abraham Lincoln, the grateful negro will add the names of their best benefactor, General Samuel C. Armstrong (the founder of Hampton Institute) and Booker T. Washington. ...
— Recollections of a Long Life - An Autobiography • Theodore Ledyard Cuyler
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