SYMPATHY in Classic Quotes

1  For the laborers as such, there is in these new captains of industry neither love nor hate, neither sympathy nor romance; it is a cold question of dollars and dividends.

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

2  And such proceedings can happen, and will happen, in any community where a class of ignorant toilers are placed by custom and race-prejudice beyond the pale of sympathy and race-brotherhood.

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

3  I should be the last one to deny the patent weaknesses and shortcomings of the Negro people; I should be the last to withhold sympathy from the white South in its efforts to solve its intricate social problems.

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

4  To gain the sympathy and cooperation of the various elements comprising the white South was Mr. Washington's first task; and this, at the time Tuskegee was founded, seemed, for a black man, well-nigh impossible.

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

5  Now if one notices carefully one will see that between these two worlds, despite much physical contact and daily intermingling, there is almost no community of intellectual life or point of transference where the thoughts and feelings of one race can come into direct contact and sympathy with the thoughts and feelings of the other.

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

6  This is a vast change from the situation in the past, when, through the close contact of master and house-servant in the patriarchal big house, one found the best of both races in close contact and sympathy, while at the same time the squalor and dull round of toil among the field-hands was removed from the sight and hearing of the family.

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