Du Bois Quote by Adam Hochschild

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which…

— C. L. R. James

“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human rights and…

— Aberjhani

“The more antiracist W. E. B. Du Bois became, the more he realized that trying to persuade powerful racists was a waste of time,…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“[T]he slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery. —W.E.B Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America…

— Michelle Alexander

“Du Bois became known as one of those “half dozen Negroes” who had allowed Harvard “to make a man out of semi-beast,” as New…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Booker Washington was essentially the head Republican boss in the South. He was a power broker.

— H. W. Brands

In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship,…

— David Levering Lewis

“I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each…

— Peggy Noonan

“Black Americans were hardly losing any moral or cultural battles. They were being violently and nonviolently defeated in political and economic battles, as Du…

— Ibram X. Kendi

Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the…

— Ray Stannard Baker

“Everyone of any import, from Jesus to George Washington, was white.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates