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" It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
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" I am a Bolshevik. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Bolshevik
Am
I Am
" All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
College
God
Training
" A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Rights
Credit
More
" If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Earth
Known
Land
" From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? "
W. E. B. Du Bois
People
Leadership
Work
" Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Must
Teach
Work
" I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Freedom
Vote
Sunshine
" 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
" I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Strength
Believe
Peace
" 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
" As a race, the Negroes are not lazy. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Race
Lazy
Negroes
" In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Leadership
Abraham
Courage
" 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
" 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
" Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Live
Progress
Always
" Education is the development of power and ideal. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Power
Development
Ideal
" Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Family
Business
Recognition
" Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? "
W. E. B. Du Bois
America
Great
Men
" 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
" Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Reform
Itself
Capitalism
" From 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
Day
Equality
Black
" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
America
Man
Problem
" 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
" Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Every
Women
Suffrage
" The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
World
Personal
Matter
" If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Black
Teachers
People
" 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
" The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Twentieth Century
Problem
Line
" A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
People
True
False
" My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Army
Revolution
England