01c. 1915 ADOne 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 being torn asunder.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
02c. 1915 ADAn 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.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
03c. 1915 ADFrom the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
04c. 1915 ADMen we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
05c. 1915 ADBefore and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
06c. 1915 ADThere was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
07c. 1915 ADI believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
08c. 1915 ADEvery argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
09c. 1915 ADThe use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
10c. 1915 ADBut what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
11c. 1915 ADNo universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
13c. 1915 ADIn the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
14c. 1915 ADA system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
15c. 1915 ADThe Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
17c. 1915 ADEducation is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
18c. 1915 ADSchool houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
19c. 1915 ADMost men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
20c. 1915 ADRule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.W.E.B. Du Bois / quote ↗
