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1 When they were past, I came by chance once more to the walls of Fisk University, to the halls of the chapel of melody.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In IV
2 Behind this honest and widespread opinion dishonesty and cheating of the ignorant laborers have a good chance to take refuge.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In VIII
3 And to themselves in these the days that try their souls, the chance to soar in the dim blue air above the smoke is to their finer spirits boon and guerdon for what they lose on earth by being black.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In VI
4 Naturally the Negroes resented, at first bitterly, signs of compromise which surrendered their civil and political rights, even though this was to be exchanged for larger chances of economic development.
The Souls of Black FolkBy W. E. B. Du Bois ContextHighlight In III
5 But when these variously constituted human particles are suddenly thrown broadcast on the sea of life, some swim, some sink, and some hang suspended, to be forced up or down by the chance currents of a busy hurrying world.
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6 About eighteen per cent of the population belong to this class of semi-metayers, while twenty-two per cent are laborers paid by the month or year, and are either "furnished" by their own savings or perhaps more usually by some merchant who takes his chances of payment.
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7 But it does mean that this class is not nearly so large as a fairer economic system might easily make it, that those who survive in the competition are handicapped so as to accomplish much less than they deserve to, and that, above all, the personnel of the successful class is left to chance and accident, and not to any intelligent culling or reasonable methods of selection.
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