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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.
- The Importance of Higher Education
- The Suffering of Black Americans
- Emancipation Does Not Equal Freedom
In Chapter III Du Bois describes what he refers to as the paradox of Booker T. Washington’s position that the higher education of Black youth should concentrate primarily on industrial education. At the time of Du Bois’s writing, this has been the focus for more than ten years, and Du Bois argues that politicians’ widespread belief in Washington’s ...
In Chapter I Du Bois discusses the hardships that await the freedman after Emancipation and details the severity of the Black man’s new burden. As a slave laborer his load is a literal burden, but as a freedman he carries the figurative encumbrance of his low status. All formerly enslaved people feel the weight of social debasement as they learn th...
In Chapter I Du Bois uses a German term, “sturm und drang,” to describe the constant pressures upon Black society even 40 years after Emancipation. The concept of “storm and stress” is a popular contemporary literary device that would be familiar to white readers, and Du Bois employs the metaphor of the boat to illustrate both how tumultuous existe...
Jul 1, 2024 · W. E. B. Du Bois. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (23 February 1868 – 27 August 1963) was an American civil rights activist, sociologist, educator, historian, author, editor, and scholar.
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