ARMSTRONG in Classic Quotes

1  General Armstrong spent two of the last six months of his life in my home at Tuskegee.

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

2  It never occurred to me that General Armstrong could fail in anything that he undertook.

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

3  As soon as it became known that General Armstrong would be pleased if some of the older students would live in the tents during the winter, nearly every student in school volunteered to go.

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

4  Fresh from the degrading influences of the slave plantation and the coal-mines, it was a rare privilege for me to be permitted to come into direct contact with such a character as General Armstrong.

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

5  It has been my fortune to meet personally many of what are called great characters, both in Europe and America, but I do not hesitate to say that I never met any man who, in my estimation, was the equal of General Armstrong.

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

6  One might have removed from Hampton all the buildings, class-rooms, teachers, and industries, and given the men and women there the opportunity of coming into daily contact with General Armstrong, and that alone would have been a liberal education.

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