Race Orthodoxy in the South: And Other Aspects of the Negro Question |
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Page 263 - Society can only exist when a great number of men consider a great number of things under the same aspect, when they hold the same opinions upon many subjects, and when the same occurrences suggest the same thoughts and impressions to their minds.
Page 183 - You would think no harm in a child's caressing a large dog, even if he was black ; but a creature that can think, and reason, and feel, and is immortal, you shudder at ; confess it, cousin. I know the feeling among some of you northerners well enough. Not that there is a particle...
Page 265 - Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb But don't go near the water.
Page 22 - Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and he made of one every nation of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation...
Page 172 - The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling for the African race, as they exist among us ; to show their wrongs and sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and do away with the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by their best friends, under it.
Page 263 - The great advantage of the Americans is that they have arrived at a state of democracy without having to endure a democratic revolution; and that they are born equal, instead of becoming so.
Page 216 - As in the other cases mentioned, the so-called instinct is not a physiological dislike. This is proved by the existence of our large mulatto population, as well as by the more ready amalgamation of the Latin peoples. It is rather an expression of social conditions that are so deeply ingrained in us that they assume a strong emotional value; and this, I presume, is meant if we call such feelings instinctive.
Page 216 - I think we have reason to be ashamed to confess that the scientific study of these questions has never received the support either of our government or of any of our great scientific institutions ; and it is hard to understand why we are so indifferent toward a question which is of paramount importance to the welfare of our nation.
Page 198 - But people can love you, if you are black, Topsy. Miss Ophelia would love you, if you were good." Topsy gave the short, blunt laugh that was her common mode of expressing incredulity. " Don't you think so?" said Eva. " No ; she can't bar me, 'cause I'ma nigger ! — she'd 's soon have a toad touch her ! There can't nobody love niggers, and niggers can't do nothin'!
Page 209 - In short, histori-i cal events appear to have been much more potent in : leading races to civilization than their faculty, and it ' follows that achievements of races do not warrant us in assuming that one race is more highly gifted than the other.