The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
