RACE in Classic Quotes

1  In order to appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south, it must be remembered that all the instinctive affections of that race are peculiarly strong.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

2  Tom, who had the soft, impressible nature of his kindly race, ever yearning toward the simple and childlike, watched the little creature with daily increasing interest.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

3  His mother was one of those unfortunates of her race, marked out by personal beauty to be the slave of the passions of her possessor, and the mother of children who may never know a father.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

4  There was the impress of the despised race on her face, yet none could help feeling its mournful and pathetic beauty, while its stony sharpness, its cold, fixed, deathly aspect, struck a solemn chill over him.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

5  The negro, it must be remembered, is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has, deep in his heart, a passion for all that is splendid, rich, and fanciful; a passion which, rudely indulged by an untrained taste, draws on them the ridicule of the colder and more correct white race.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

6  Then, too, he was in a beautiful place, a consideration to which his sensitive race was never indifferent; and he did enjoy with a quiet joy the birds, the flowers, the fountains, the perfume, and light and beauty of the court, the silken hangings, and pictures, and lustres, and statuettes, and gilding, that made the parlors within a kind of Aladdin's palace to him.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI