COLOR in Classic Quotes

1  It was not then a question of crime, but rather one of color, that settled a man's conviction on almost any charge.

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

2  Usually in cities each street has its distinctive color, and only now and then do the colors meet in close proximity.

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

3  Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.

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

4  All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

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

5  Driven from his birthright in the South by a situation at which every fibre of his more outspoken and assertive nature revolts, he finds himself in a land where he can scarcely earn a decent living amid the harsh competition and the color discrimination.

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

6  And finally, when you fasten crime upon this race as its peculiar trait, they answer that slavery was the arch-crime, and lynching and lawlessness its twin abortions; that color and race are not crimes, and yet it is they which in this land receive most unceasing condemnation, North, East, South, and West.

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