She was so in sympathy with this family that she felt in a hurry to get to work, and so signalled a passing car to stop, and entered. It was well filled, but two seats remaining unoccupied she seated herself in one of them.
Presently a little colored girl came in and took the other. A high-bred dame sitting next elevated her aristocratic nose and pulled her skirts aside as if fearing contamination.
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for the Lord hath spoken. Jeremiah xiii, 15.
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! Proverbs xxx, 13.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of Hosts. Jeremiah 1, 31.
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs xvi, 5.
I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. Isaiah xiii, 11.
The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down. Isaiah ii, 11.
Why draw this color line so tightly? What of this outer covering? Have not these people immortal souls which may be white as the whitest; and in many cases, brilliant talents?
The Witch remembered a circumstance where a king of oratory, holding a high official position, was debarred from sitting at table with a ship's crew on account of this same color, which was only a heavier shading; and is not all creation a matter of shadow and coloring?