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" Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Every
Women
Suffrage
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" The 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
Death
Men
Problem
" Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Live
Progress
Always
" When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
More
Numbers
Reading
" Before 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
Freedom
Action
Men
" All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Care
Black
Stand
" The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Cruel
Mean
Slavery
" It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Race
Beginning
Black
" As a race, the Negroes are not lazy. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Race
Lazy
Negroes
" But 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
Through
Race
Fire
" No 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
Men
Good
Effort
" For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Best
Great
America
" I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Too
I Am
Black
" For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Youth
Planning
Teacher
" The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Naked
Ignorant
Hands
" 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
Thoughts
Strength
American
" What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior! "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Possibilities
Human
World
" There 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
History
Learning
Men
" How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Human
How
Hard
" Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Worth
God
Culture
" Education is the development of power and ideal. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Power
Development
Ideal
" I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Childhood
Happy
Acceptance
" Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Most
Today
Slavery
" The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Twentieth Century
Problem
Line
" School 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
School
Black
Men
" A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Classic
Again
Book
" The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Price
Liberty
Less
" North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Slavery
Rights
Poverty
" I am a Bolshevik. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Bolshevik
Am
I Am
" 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 self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
See
World
Son
" The 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
Impossible
Cotton
Day