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Example sentences for "both races"

  • It commends itself to us as worthy of the most serious attention of the thoughtful of both races in the North and in the South.

  • The agreement with the sister society says explicitly that the Association is "to pursue its educational and church work in the South among both races.

  • We are the debtors of Christ to both races.

  • That even in northern cities which have large segregated colored districts such separate branches would result in reaching a larger number of negroes and doing better work for both races.

  • General Attitude The prevailing attitude toward libraries for negroes is one of indifference among the masses of both races.

  • We could do better service to both races if there could be a separation, for we must take the people with their prejudices, especially in the use of the library, which is a purely voluntary matter.

  • Over the greater part of the state, they said, it interfered but little with the negro, and consequently the affairs of both races were in better condition.

  • A proposition for separate schools was voted down on the ground that it was better for the children of both races to go to school together and wear off their prejudices.

  • Summers, who lived in the heart of the Black Belt, said, "I have not found a planter who does not think the abolition of slavery a great misfortune to both races; but all recognize abolition to be an accomplished fact.

  • He saw himself, rather, as of double caste; a fusion of the best in both races.

  • They at least would not give up hope of the lasting unity vital to both races, because political errors and poisonous influences and tragic events had roused a mutual spirit of bitterness difficult to quell.

  • An inflammatory play called "The Clansman," though forbidden by public sentiment in many Southern cities, had been given in Atlanta and other places with the effect of increasing the prejudice of both races.

  • One of the most respected Negro men there--respected by both races--was a prosperous tailor who owned a building on the main street of the city.

  • Evil will surely come in the end to both races if we substitute for this just rule the habit of treating all the members of the race, good and bad, alike.

  • All this has given place to the simple plan of an indefinite extension among the neglected classes of both races of the Hampton-Tuskegee system of training.

  • To-day there are no such organizations in the South, and the fact that such ever existed is almost forgotten by both races.

  • The exercise of political franchises by those of this race who are intelligent and well to do will be acquiesced in, and the right to vote will be withheld only from the ignorant and irresponsible of both races.

  • It has given new inspiration to the power of self-help in both races by making labor more honorable to the one and more necessary to the other.

  • These restrictions apply in theory alike to both races.

  • The members of these societies are very faithful in the duties required of them, and hence give great edification to the people of both races.

  • Much of the work of the Freedmen's Bureau was of only temporary benefit to both races.

  • In America the absorption of the Dutch Colonies in the seventeenth century had led to the peaceful fusion of both races, nor was there any reason why, under wise rule, the same fusion should not have occurred in South Africa.

  • For my own part, I think it is pleasanter to dwell on the splendid qualities it evoked in both races, and above all on the mutual respect which replaced the mutual contempt of earlier days.

  • For many years the board of trustees has had persons of both races as members.

  • The treasurer has always been white but the office of secretary has been filled by members of both races.

  • A cause operating against education of both races remains to be cited.

  • The forces of both races appear to have been composed very largely, if not entirely, of infantry.

  • Study the history of the South, and you will find that, where there has been the most dishonesty in the matter of voting, there you will find to-day the lowest moral condition of both races.

  • I believe the permanent cure for our present evils will come through a property and educational test for voting that shall apply honestly and fairly to both races.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both alike; both banks; both before and after; both branches; both cases; both chief; both church and state; both civil and criminal; both clauses; both continents; both countries; both from; both hemispheres; both horse and foot; both jaws; both officers and men; both poles; both public and private; both senses; both sexes; both surfaces; both these; differing from; get hold; hastened away; severe cold