Tao Te Ching
W. E. B. Du Bois
1868 – 1963 CE
W. E. B. Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt (1868 – 1963)
First African American to earn a doctorate (Harvard), co-founder of the NAACP, historian, peace activist,sociologist, and civil rights activist for minorities world-wide; Du Bois led the Niagara Movement which insisted on equal rights rather than accepting Southern white proposals that traded Black political freedoms for economic and educational opportunities. He protested against the commonly accepted lynchings of his time, wrote a foundational set of African-American essays, and one of the first scientific works in the new field of sociology. Blaming capitalism for causing racism, he proposed and promoted many issues that became law in the US Civil Rights Act, criticized American churches for being primary supports of discrimination, and worked hard for nuclear disarmament.
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Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Gilded Age (1860 – 1900 CE)
Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Sources
Unlisted Sources
Black Reconstruction
The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois (12 quotes)
“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”
from Souls of Black Folk
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“education… will always have an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.”
from Souls of Black Folk
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“He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.”
from Souls of Black Folk
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“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
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“What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?”
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“the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling…All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?”
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“with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.”
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“The function of the university is… to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.”
from Souls of Black Folk
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“He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.”
from The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
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“The world wept and still is weeping and blind with tears and blood. For there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism and a new enslavement of labor.”
from Black Reconstruction
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