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Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars... →
A few years ago no hotel or restaurant in Boston refused Negro guests; now several hotels, restaurants, and especially confectionary stores, will not... →
But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and... →
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so... →
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom... →
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