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| f96b2e1 | Your country? How came it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song--soft, stirring melody in an ill-harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, a gift .. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| a178c77 | Although industry was now in control of the national government, the Republican party which represented it was a minority party; and Northern and Southern Democrats, especially Southern Democrats with increased power by counting the full Negro population, together with Western malcontents, could easily oust the Republicans. It was because of this thought that Northern industry made its great alliance with abolition-democracy. The consummati.. | reconstruction two-party | W E B Du Bois | |
| 9e416ac | coign | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 04c1c31 | ON JUNE 25, 1890, W. E. B. Du Bois spoke at his Harvard graduation ceremony. He had now excelled, and had graduated from the most prestigious historically Black college and the most prestigious historically White college in the United States. He felt he was showing off the capability of his race. Du Bois's "brilliant and eloquent address," as judged by the reporters, was on "Jefferson Davis as Representative of Civilization." In Du Bois's r.. | Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| bd40abc | Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. MRS. BROWNING. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 6e4adf9 | Black resistance caused lynchings to spike in the early 1890s. However, the White lynchers justified the spike in lynchings as corresponding to a spike in Black crime. This justification was accepted by a young W. E. B. Du Bois, by the middle-aged, ambitious principle of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington, and by a dying Frederick Douglass. It took a young antiracist Black woman to set these racist men straight. Mississippi-.. | Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| 9730bad | South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 188cdc0 | Clearly, the purpose of the black codes in general and the vagrancy laws in particular was to establish another system of forced labor. In W.E.B. Du Bois's words: "The Codes spoke for themselves. . . . No open-minded student can read them without being convinced they meant nothing more nor less than slavery in daily toil."14" -- | Michelle Alexander | ||
| 3ca0e4a | The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 433737b | The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. Such | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 6d313b5 | W. E. B. DuBois, a co-founder of the NAACP, wrote, "Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph." | Shane Claiborne | ||
| 5aa7c8a | The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| b1a8d46 | was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| af37a46 | It had long been the more or less definitely expressed theory of the North that all the chief problems of Emancipation might be settled by establishing the slaves on the forfeited lands of their masters--a sort of poetic justice, said some. But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South or vast appropriations. Now Congress had not appropriated a cent, and no sooner did the proclam.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 062ba81 | rich and bitter depth of their experience, the | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 919c990 | this noticeable in the South, where theology and religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and methods. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| c66e514 | And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,--all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,--who is good? not that men are ignorant,--what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. He | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| ac0bf17 | T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. --W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America For | Michelle Alexander | ||
| 4ede5de | Thus one can see in the Negro church to-day, reproduced in microcosm, all the great world from which the Negro is cut off by color-prejudice and social condition. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 9ca3778 | How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 0473bbe | Awakening will come, when the pent-up vigor of ten million souls shall sweep irresistibly toward the Goal, out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, where all that makes life worth living--Liberty, Justice, and Right--is marked "For White People Only." | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 73dc162 | One ever feels his two-ness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. | race-and-racism-in-america | W.E.B. Du Bois | |
| 2e537c7 | whilom | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| e14784a | Golden apples are beautiful-I remember the lawless days of boyhood, when orchards in crimson and gold tempted me over fence and field-and, too, the merchant who has dethroned the planter is no despicable parvenu. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 412411b | Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature. And yet they must not be encouraged by being let alone. They must be recognized as facts, but unpleasant facts; things that stand in the way of civilization and religion and .. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 7a6020a | position,--for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 7ce860c | until I had wandered beyond railways, beyond stage lines, to a land of "varmints" and rattlesnakes, where the coming of a stranger was an event, and men lived and died in the shadow of one blue hill." -- | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 267cbef | I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a half-awakened common consciousness, | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| aebced1 | found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering. Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 3f282bb | In its place stood Progress; and Progress, I understand, is necessarily ugly. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 1236fae | War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery,--this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law. Nor | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| d3100b8 | the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the State needs criminals to eke out its income by their forced labor. Immigrants | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 9d734e6 | Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them. | african-american-women african-families crimes-against-humanity day-to-end-racism forced-labor forgiveness heinous-crimes history-of-africans history-of-slavery human-bondage human-trafficking international-women-s-day physical-abuse postered-poetics-by-aberjhani psychological-trauma quotation-poster-art sex-trafficking slave-holders slavery slavery-in-the-united-states w-e-b-du-bois web-dubois wisdom-quotes women-and-human-trafficking women-around-the-world women-in-history women-s-history-month | Aberjhani | |
| 7f5b57a | The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 1b0d3d7 | not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| b9c57bc | The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork," he notes," | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 1eaa34b | annealed | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 154bf09 | Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that swayed and blinded men. Amid it all, two figures ever stand to typify that day to coming ages,--the one, a gray-haired gentleman, whose fathers had quit themselves like men, whose sons lay in nameless graves; who bowed to the evil of slavery because its abolition threatened untold ill to all; who stood at last, in the ev.. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 5716aec | Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 421a0af | Originality is not a fixed trait. It is a free choice. Lincoln wasn't born with an original personality. Taking on controversy wasn't programmed into his DNA; it was an act of conscious will. As the great thinker W. E. B. DuBois wrote, "He was one of you and yet he became Abraham Lincoln." | Adam M. Grant | ||
| 459028e | The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste of time, and the more certain he felt that Black people must rely on each other. | Ibram X. Kendi | ||
| 4591839 | So here we stand among thoughts of human unity, even through conquest and slavery; the inferiority of black men, even if forced by fraud; a shriek in the night for the freedom of men who themselves are not yet sure of their right to demand it. This is the tangle of thought and afterthought wherein we are called to solve the problem of training men for life. Behind | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| 88e3f3d | Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always successfully stormed at, nor easily abolished by act of legislature. And yet they must not be encouraged by being let alone. They must be recognized as facts, but unpleasant facts; things that stand in the way of civilization and religion and .. | W.E.B. Du Bois | ||
| c8e5b93 | In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches,--one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcar.. | segregation understanding | W.E.B. Du Bois |