All 8 Uses
agitate
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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
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- In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely informed about the great National questions that were agitating the country.†
Chpt 1agitating = stirring up (emotionally or physically)
- From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.
Chpt 1 *agitate = stir up (public demand)
- During the whole of the Reconstruction period two ideas were constantly agitating in the minds of the coloured people, or, at least, in the minds of a large part of the race.†
Chpt 5agitating = stirring up (emotionally or physically)
- Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property.†
Chpt 5agitation = the act of stirring up (emotionally or physically); or a state of emotional unrest
- Black Race And Red Race During the year that I spent in Washington, and for some little time before this, there had been considerable agitation in the state of West Virginia over the question of moving the capital of the state from Wheeling to some other central point.†
Chpt 6
- I tried to emphasize the fact that while the Negro should not be deprived by unfair means of the franchise, political agitation alone would not save him, and that back of the ballot he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character, and that no race without these elements could permanently succeed.†
Chpt 13
- The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.†
Chpt 14
- There were many important National questions bearing upon the life of the race which were being agitated at that time, and this made it all the harder for us to decide to go.†
Chpt 16agitated = not calm; or stirred up (often emotionally)
Definitions:
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(1)
(agitate) to stir up or shake -- emotionally (as when people are angered or upset) or physically (as when a washing machine cleans clothes)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)