DOLLAR in Classic Quotes

1  One dollar and ten cents is the cash price in town.

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

2  To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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

3  Here was a man paying five dollars for goods which he could have bought for three dollars cash, and raised for one dollar or one dollar and a half.

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

4  Twenty years yonder sunken-cheeked, old black man has labored under that system, and now, turned day-laborer, is supporting his wife and boarding himself on his wages of a dollar and a half a week, received only part of the year.

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

5  Of every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even then the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform.

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

6  The systems of control, thus started, rapidly grew, here and there, into strange little governments, like that of General Banks in Louisiana, with its ninety thousand black subjects, its fifty thousand guided laborers, and its annual budget of one hundred thousand dollars and more.

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