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- “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” ― W.E.B. DuBois.
- “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois.
- “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois.
- “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” ― W.E.B. DuBois.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- 1903
- “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?
- “One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
- “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.
- “After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
W. E. B. Du Bois. A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. W. E. B. Du Bois. Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
In November 2020, friends of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center shared a series of quotes by Du Bois that resonate in our own time. The quotes below were chosen by the 2019 cohort of Du Bois Center graduate and post-doctoral fellows.
“It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880. tags: culture, jim-crow, privilege, property, race, reconstruction. 5 likes. Like.
Apr 3, 2014 · QUOTES. One ever feels his 'twoness' — 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 ...
