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W. E. B. Du Bois - The Negro (1915)

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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of Southern slavery. One hears, on the one hand, of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; on the other hand one hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridled power and wide oppression of men. Which is the true picture? The answer is simple: both are true. They are not opposite sides of the same shield; they are different shields.

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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

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W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois
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Born: February 23, 1868
Died: August 27, 1963 (aged 95)
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