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W. E. B. Du Bois — Portrait after a picture by James E. Purdy / Adam Cuerden (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

American sociologist and activist

1868–1963

11 quotes, most often on Race and Knowledge.

To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world.
Black Reconstruction in America (1935), p. 602
- Democracy
- Race
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil.
The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. VI: “Of the Training of Black Men”In context
- Race
- Reading
The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.
The Souls of Black Folk (1903), The ForethoughtIn context
- History
- Race
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Chapter IIn context
- Money
- Race

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