The Story of a Rising Race: The Negro in Revelation, in History, and in Citizenship : what the Race Has Done and is Doing in Arms, Arts Letters ... and with Those Mighty Weapons ... the Shovel and the HoeN.D. Thompson, 1902 - 491 σελίδες An attempt by a Southerner to rise above deep-breed prejudices and objectively list the known accomplishments of African Americans following the end of slavery. |
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The Story of a Rising Race: The Negro in Revelation, in History, and in ... James Jefferson Pipkin Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1902 |
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Σελίδα 208 - In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Σελίδα 287 - The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light : they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Σελίδα 214 - The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
Σελίδα 286 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Σελίδα 34 - And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
Σελίδα 230 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Σελίδα 207 - I thank you with much enthusiasm for making the address. I have read it with intense interest, and I think the Exposition would be fully justified if it did not do more than furnish the opportunity for its delivery. Your words cannot fail to delight and encourage all who wish well for your race...
Σελίδα 214 - ... business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic. Gentlemen of the Exposition, as we present to you our humble effort at an exhibition of our progress, you must not expect overmuch. Starting thirty years ago with ownership here and there in a few quilts and pumpkins and chickens (gathered from miscellaneous sources...
Σελίδα 42 - Now, blue-eyed Saxon, proud of your race, go back with me to the commencement of the century, and select what statesman you please. Let him be either American or European ; let him have a brain the result of six generations of culture; let him have the ripest training of university routine ; let him add to it the better education of practical life ; crown his temples with the silver...
Σελίδα 33 - And Cush begat Nimrod : he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. Wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh and the city Rehoboth, and Calah. And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah ; the same is a great city.