COLOR-LINE in Classic Quotes

1  The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.

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

2  The winding and intricacy of the geographical color-line varies, of course, in different communities.

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

3  It is usually possible to draw in nearly every Southern community a physical color-line on the map, on the one side of which whites dwell and on the other Negroes.

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

4  Nothing has come to replace that finer sympathy and love between some masters and house servants which the radical and more uncompromising drawing of the color-line in recent years has caused almost completely to disappear.

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

5  The white man, as well as the Negro, is bound and barred by the color-line, and many a scheme of friendliness and philanthropy, of broad-minded sympathy and generous fellowship between the two has dropped still-born because some busybody has forced the color-question to the front and brought the tremendous force of unwritten law against the innovators.

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

6  Slowly but surely his eyes begin to catch the shadows of the color-line: here he meets crowds of Negroes and whites; then he is suddenly aware that he cannot discover a single dark face; or again at the close of a day's wandering he may find himself in some strange assembly, where all faces are tinged brown or black, and where he has the vague, uncomfortable feeling of the stranger.

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