1 The mass live in one- and two-room homes.
2 We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human soul.
3 To be sure, the ideas of the mass would not suit New England, and there are many loose habits and notions.
4 So in the South: the mass of the freedmen at the end of the war lacked the intelligence so necessary to modern workingmen.
5 Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave's ethical growth.
6 Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours.
7 Sadly did the Old South err in human education, despising the education of the masses, and niggardly in the support of colleges.
8 It is easy for us to lose ourselves in details in endeavoring to grasp and comprehend the real condition of a mass of human beings.
9 Huddled as he was in a few centres like Philadelphia, New York, and New Orleans, the masses of the freedmen sank into poverty and listlessness; but not all of them.
10 The keynote of the Black Belt is debt; not commercial credit, but debt in the sense of continued inability on the part of the mass of the population to make income cover expense.
11 The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering.
12 Spreading trees spring from a prodigal luxuriance of undergrowth; great dark green shadows fade into the black background, until all is one mass of tangled semi-tropical foliage, marvellous in its weird savage splendor.
13 And thus the land-owners, despite their marvellous efforts, are really a transient class, continually being depleted by those who fall back into the class of renters or metayers, and augmented by newcomers from the masses.
14 In the professions, college men are slowly but surely leavening the Negro church, are healing and preventing the devastations of disease, and beginning to furnish legal protection for the liberty and property of the toiling masses.
15 And the Negro knew full well that, whatever their deeper convictions may have been, Southern men had fought with desperate energy to perpetuate this slavery under which the black masses, with half-articulate thought, had writhed and shivered.
16 So far as Mr. Washington preaches Thrift, Patience, and Industrial Training for the masses, we must hold up his hands and strive with him, rejoicing in his honors and glorying in the strength of this Joshua called of God and of man to lead the headless host.
17 The red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systematic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon his race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass of corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home.
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