Community Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois

““I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a half-awakened common consciousness,””

W.E.B. Du Bois

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“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

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“So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable. Men began to pride themselves…

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“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick minds and…

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“A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton Kingdom--the shadow…

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“All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.”

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“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and…

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“Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must…

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“Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free…

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“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men…

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“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

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“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that swayed and…

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“perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.”

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