All 6 Uses of
attain
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.†
Chpt 1
- Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.†
Chpt 1
- The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him.†
Chpt 1 *
- He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.†
Chpt 1
- We argued, as we thought then rather logically, that no social class was so good, so true, and so disinterested as to be trusted wholly with the political destiny of its neighbors; that in every state the best arbiters of their own welfare are the persons directly affected; consequently that it is only by arming every hand with a ballot,—with the right to have a voice in the policy of the state,—that the greatest good to the greatest number could be attained.†
Chpt 9
- Well sped, my boy, before the world had dubbed your ambition insolence, had held your ideals unattainable, and taught you to cringe and bow.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(attain) to gain or reach something with effort