RIGHT in Classic Quotes

1  In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.

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

2  Back of this more formal religion, the Church often stands as a real conserver of morals, a strengthener of family life, and the final authority on what is Good and Right.

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

3  Right across our track, three hundred and sixty years ago, wandered the cavalcade of Hernando de Soto, looking for gold and the Great Sea; and he and his foot-sore captives disappeared yonder in the grim forests to the west.

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

4  Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation's heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this people, and they have found peace only in the altars of the God of Right.

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

5  These two arguments were unanswered, and indeed unanswerable: the one that the extraordinary powers of the Bureau threatened the civil rights of all citizens; and the other that the government must have power to do what manifestly must be done, and that present abandonment of the freedmen meant their practical reenslavement.

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

6  And all this is gained only by human strife and longing; by ceaseless training and education; by founding Right on righteousness and Truth on the unhampered search for Truth; by founding the common school on the university, and the industrial school on the common school; and weaving thus a system, not a distortion, and bringing a birth, not an abortion.

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