{"author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois","total_quotes":42,"quotes":[{"text":"I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["creed","evil","slavery","superstition","war"],"id":21639,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["opportunity","race"],"id":23229,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours. You may marshal strong indictments against them, but their counter-cries, lacking though they be in formal logic, have burning truths within them which you may not wholly ignore, O Southern Gentlemen!","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["racism","righteous-anger","truth"],"id":37026,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["race"],"id":46020,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in the same way; and this must produce a peculiar wrenching of the soul, a peculiar sense of doubt and bewilderment. Such a double life, with double thoughts, double duties, and double social classes, must give rise to double words and double ideals, and tempt the mind to pretence or revolt, to hypocrisy or radicalism.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["disconnect","racism"],"id":93997,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting... The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not fame.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["college","education","learning","school"],"id":96455,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["criticism","democracy"],"id":101900,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"What rent do you pay here?' I inquired. 'I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?' 'All we make,' answered Sam. It is a depressing place,—bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of forced human toil,—now, then, and before the war. They are not happy, these black men whom we meet throughout this region. There is little of the joyous abandon and playfulness which we are wont to associate with the plantation Negro.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["misery","sharecropping","stereotype"],"id":113425,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South to reply that their social condition is the main cause of prejudice. They both act as reciprocal cause and effect, and a change in neither alone will bring the desired effect. Both must change, or neither can improve to any great extent.'(p.88)....'Only by a union of intelligence and sympathy across the color-line in this critical period of the Republic shall justice and right triumph,.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["african-american","african-american-","race-and-racism-in-america","race-relations","racism","south"],"id":126645,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"},{"text":"In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches,—one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcars.","author":"W.E.B. Du Bois","tags":["humanity","segregation","understanding"],"id":148411,"author_id":"W.E.B.+Du+Bois"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}