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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOCIAL EQUALITY A Stranger to American institutions would be curiously impressed by the separate and distinct social i areas which the two races occupy. Here are two peoples, domiciled in the same territory, vested with / equal civil and political rights, speaking the same .' language, loyal to the same institutions, worshiping / God after the same ritual, and linked together in a ( common destiny; and yet in all purely personal and f pleasurable intercourse they are as far apart as if, y separated by interstellar space., Social equality ) is the shibboleth which divides the races asundej/ This slogan, like a savage warwhoop, arouses the deepest venom of race, which slumbers only skin deep beneath a thin veneer of civilization. This expression cannot be defined according to the ordinary import and weight of words. Whoever coined it possessed a genius for summoning the evil spirit. The term has no exact lexical status, but it is surcharged with idiomatic meaning. We can no more determine its potency and power from the component words than we can judge the emblematic significance of Old Glory by the fabric and dyestuff that enter into its composition. As the sight of the flag evokes the patriotic zeal of the loyal beholder, or as the soldier makes frantic response to the alarm to arms, so the tocsin social equality arouses the pride of class and wrath of race. Social and equality are two excellent, elegant words; but social equality must not be pronounced in good society, like two harmless chemical elements uniting to make a dangerous compound. This phrase has unbounded potency over the passion of the white man of the South. He religiously obeys its behest, at whatever sacrifice or cost of conscience. He bows down and worships before a verbal idol wi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217539586 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217539580 |
| Weight | 0.56 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 166 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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