Culture Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

8 Culture quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s reflections on culture are captured in eight succinct statements. They convey his profound historical perspective and enduring relevance.

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Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by…

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Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious…

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The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,…

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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other…

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Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that…

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This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he…

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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will…

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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,…

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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence…

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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the…

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Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at…

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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…

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code…

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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen…

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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art…

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The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the…

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive…

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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul…

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