HOPE in Classic Quotes

1  It is a land of rapid contrasts and of curiously mingled hope and pain.

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

2  Here again the hope for the future depended peculiarly on careful and delicate dealing with these criminals.

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

3  Conscious of his impotence, and pessimistic, he often becomes bitter and vindictive; and his religion, instead of a worship, is a complaint and a curse, a wail rather than a hope, a sneer rather than a faith.

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

4  We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands.

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

5  Sprung from the African forests, where its counterpart can still be heard, it was adapted, changed, and intensified by the tragic soul-life of the slave, until, under the stress of law and whip, it became the one true expression of a people's sorrow, despair, and hope.

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

6  One class is spiritually descended from Toussaint the Savior, through Gabriel, Vesey, and Turner, and they represent the attitude of revolt and revenge; they hate the white South blindly and distrust the white race generally, and so far as they agree on definite action, think that the Negro's only hope lies in emigration beyond the borders of the United States.

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