BlogHide Resteemswebdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Gentle Reader...the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line." ****webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois 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 strength alone keeps it from being torn…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois 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 strength alone keeps it from being torn…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"XIV. COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF PROPERTYHow, After the war, triumphant industry in the North coupled with privilege and monopoly led an orgy of death that engulfed the nation and was the natural child…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Ignorance is a cure for nothing. " ****webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois 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 strength alone keeps it from being torn…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." ****webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame." ****webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"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…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising…webdubois (40)in quote • 9 months agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life." ****webdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes“IX. THE PRICE OF DISASTERThe price of the disaster of slavery and civil war was the necessity of quickly assimilating into American democracy a mass of ignorant laborers in whose hands alone for…webdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes“It is easy for us to lose ourselves in details in endeavoring to grasp and comprehend the real condition of a mass of human beings. We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human…webdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Now, early in 1865, the war is over. The North does not especially want free Negroes, it wants trade and wealth. The South does not want a particular interpretation of the Constitution. It wants…webdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his…webdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"Education must not simply teach work - it much teach life" W.E.B. Du Boiswebdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"How shall man measure Progress there where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow s hall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and…webdubois (40)in quote • 5 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"That the present social separation and acute race-sensitiveness must eventually yield to the influences of culture, as the South grows civilized, is clear." W.E.B. Du Boiswebdubois (40)in quote • 6 years agoW.E.B Du Bois Quotes"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…