JOHN in Classic Quotes

1  Up in Johnstown, at the Institute, we were long puzzled at the case of John Jones.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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2  It grieved Josie, and great awkward John walked nine miles every day to see his little brother through the bars of Lebanon jail.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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3  Nor is this peculiar to Sambo; it has in history been just as true of John and Hans, of Jacques and Pat, of all ground-down peasantries.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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4  There remained two growing girls; a shy midget of eight; John, tall, awkward, and eighteen; Jim, younger, quicker, and better looking; and two babies of indefinite age.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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5  So the Dean promised faithfully, and John shouldered his little trunk, giving neither word nor look to the giggling boys, and walked down Carlisle Street to the great city, with sober eyes and a set and serious face.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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6  To be sure, ultimate freedom and assimilation was the ideal before the leaders, but the assertion of the manhood rights of the Negro by himself was the main reliance, and John Brown's raid was the extreme of its logic.

The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
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