Select
a
quote
from
below
that
you
strongly
agree
or
disagree
with
(based
on
your
reading
of
Iola
Leroy,
or
Shadows


Uplifted).

In
an
essay,
defend
or
challenge
your
selected
quote
and
use
examples
from
the
novel
to
support
your
argument.



Remember,
do
not
summarize
the
plot!


Type
your
essay
in
12­point
Times
New
Roman
font
(no
boldface),
use
1”
margins

and
please
double­space.

You
will
be
dropped
one
letter
grade
for
not
following
the
guidelines.



 “But
slavery
had
cast
such
a
glamour
over
the
Nation,
and
so
warped
the
consciences
of
men,
that
they
failed
to
read
aright

the
legible
transcript
of
the
Divine
retribution.”
(pg.
14)



 “The
color
of
a
man’s
skin
has
nothing
to
do
with
his
rights.”
(pg.
44)



 “I
do
think
that
the
faith
of
[the
black
race]
has
in
a
measure
underlain
the
life
of
the
race.

It
has
been
a
golden
thread
woven

amid
the
somber
tissues
of
their
lives.
A
ray
of
light
shimmering
amid
the
gloom
of
their
condition.”
(pg.
48)



 “These
Northern
[folks]
do
two
things
–
hate
slavery
and
hate
niggers.”
(pg.
49)



 “You
cannot
wrong
or
degrade
a
woman
without
wronging
or
degrading
yourself.”
(pg.
70)



 “Neither
wealth
nor
education
can
repair
the
wrong
of
a
dishonored
birth.”
(pg.
78)



 “I
think
one
of
the
great
mistakes
of
our
civilization
is
that
which
makes
color,
and
not
character,
a
social
test.”
(pg
84)



 “Some
of
the
most
beautiful
lessons
of
faith
and
trust...[are]
from
among
the
lowly
people.’
(pg.
107)



 “Thoughts
and
purposes
have
come
to
me
in
the
shadow
I
should
have
never
learned
in
the
sunshine.”
(pg.
114)



 “Slavery
drew
a
line
of
cleavage
in
this
country.

Although
we
were
under
one
government,
we
were
farther
apart
in
our

sentiments
than
if
we
had
been
divided
by
lofty
mountains
and
separated
by
wide
seas.”
(pg.
115)



 “The
negro
has
no
other
alternative
than
to
make
friends
of
his
calamities.”
(pg.
115)



 “The
Anglo‐Saxon
race
is
proud,
domineering,
aggressive,
and
impatient
of
a
rival,
and,
I
think,
has
more
capacity
for

dragging
down
a
weaker
race
than
uplifting
it.”
(pg..
116)



 “Slavery
was
a
deadly
cancer
eating
into
the
life
of
the
nation….”
(pg.
132)



 “I
am
not
despondent
of
the
future
of
my
people;
there
is
too
much
elasticity
in
their
spirits,
too
much
hope
in
their
hearts,
to

be
crushed
by
unreasoning
malice.:
(pg
147)



 “It
seems
as
if
the
prejudice
pursues
us
through
every
avenue
of
life,
and
assigns
us
to
the
lowest
places.”
(pg.
207)



 “There
is
no
teacher
like
experience.”
(pg.
208)



 “When
we
have
learned
to
treat
men
according
to
the
complexion
of
their
souls,
and
not
the
color
of
their
skins,
we
will
have

given
our
best
contribution
towards
the
solution
of
the
negro
problem.”
(pg.
212)



 “War
is
a
dreadful
thing;
but
worse
was
than
the
war
was
the
slavery
which
preceded
it.”



 “Slavery…is
dead,
but
the
sprit
which
animated
it
still
lives.”
(pg
217)



 “I
do
not
think
that
you
fully
realize
how
much
prejudice
against
colored
people
permeates
our
society,
lowers
the
tone
of

religion,
and
reacts
upon
the
life
of
the
nation.”
(pg.
231)



 Pain
and
suffering
are
the
crucibles
out
of
which
come
gold
more
fine
than
the
pavements
of
heaven,
and
gems
more

precious
than
the
foundations
of
the
Holy
City.”
(pg
256)



 “It
[is
better
to]
walk
the
ruggedest
paths
of
life
a
true
man
than
to
tread
the
softest
carpets
a
moral
cripple.”
(pg.
266)



 “Darkness
shows
us
worlds
of
light
we
never
[saw]
by
day.”
(pg.
273)





Bring
your
Iola
Leroy
books
to
class
on
Monday
and
Tuesday
(11/15
&
11/16),
please

:o)