The Slave Went Free; Stood a Brief Minute in the Sun; Then Moved Back Again Towards Slavery
The quotes below were chosen past the 2019 accomplice of Du Bois Center graduate and post-doctoral fellows.
Du Bois Centre Fellows Favorite Du Bois Quotes
Group portrait of Du Bois and friends and family at his 70th altogether celebration at Atlanta University, 1938.
"Between me and the other world there is always an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter circular it. They arroyo me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of maxim straight, How does information technology feel to be a trouble? they say, I know an excellent colored human in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Practice not these Southern outrages brand your blood eddy? At these I smiling, or am interested, or reduce the humid to a simmer, as the occasion may ask. To the existent question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word."
W. E. B. Du Boisin The Souls of Black Folk(1903)
Chosen by Jay Cephas, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern University and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
"You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams even so live."
W. E. B. Du Bois in The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois(1968)
Called past Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Sociology and Education at Tufts University and 2019 Du Bois Center Postal service-Doctoral Boyfriend
"Nosotros say easily, for instance, 'The ignorant ought non to vote.' We would say, 'No civilized land should have citizens likewise ignorant to participate in government,' and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no country is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to assist rule it."
W. E. B. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)
Chosen by Adam Dahl, Banana Professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back once more toward slavery."
W. E. B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen by Alexandria Russell, Post-Doctoral Boyfriend in the Department of History at Rutgers University and 2019 Du Bois Center Mail-Doctoral Fellow
"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Chosen past Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
"Reader of dead words who would live deeds, this is the flowering of my logic: I dream of a earth of infinitive and valuable diverseness; not in the laws of gravity or diminutive weights, but in man variety in height and weight, colour and skin, hair and nose and lip. But more than specially and far above and beyond this, is a realm of true freedom: in idea and dream, fantasy and imagination; in gift, aptitude, and genius—all possible way of difference, topped with freedom of soul to do and exist, and freedom of thought to requite to a world and build into it, all wealth of inborn individuality. Each effort to stop this freedom of beingness is a accident at democracy—that real democracy which is reservoir and opportunity . . . There tin be no perfect commonwealth concise by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even Peace."
W. E. B. Du Bois in The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in Earth History (Oxford University Press, 2007 [1947]), 165.
Called by Phillip Sinitiere, Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies, Houston, TX and 2019 Du Bois Eye Post-Doctoral Young man
"Perhaps fifty-fifty higher than strength and art loom human sympathy and cede as characteristic of Negro womanhood"
W. E. B. Du Bois in The Damnation of Women (1920)
Chosen by Sarah Holm Tanzi, 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Fellow
Viewing anniversary parade from balcony of aboriginal Purple Palace in Peking, Oct. 1, 1962.
"Nations reel and stagger on their fashion; they brand hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do cracking and beautiful things. And shall nosotros not all-time guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far equally the truth is attestable?"
W. East. B. Du Boisin Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen past Eliza Araújo, Visiting Scholar at UMass AFROAm Department, Ph.D pupil at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Swain
"But what of Black women?… I near sincerely doubtfulness if whatsoever other race of women could accept brought its fineness upwards through and then devilish a fire."
West. Due east. B. Du Bois
Chosen by Venus Green, Doctoral student in Sociology at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Young man
"Beneath the Veil lay right and incorrect, vengeance and beloved, and sometimes throwing bated the veil, a soul of sweet Beauty and Truth stood revealed."
W. E. B. Du Bois in Blackness Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen by Aaron Yates, Doctoral pupil in Sociology at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Fellow
"I believe in pride of race and lineage and self; in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves."
Due west. Eastward. B. Du Bois
Chosen by Samantha Davis, Doctoral student in Political Science at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Beau
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois seated in written report property newspaper.
"The true significance of slavery in the United States to the whole social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in the Us? If all labor, black besides as white, became costless – were given schools and the right to vote – what control could or should be prepare to the power and action of these laborers? Was the rule of the mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to all men regardless of race and color, or if not, what power of dictatorship and command; and how would property and privilege exist protected? This was the keen and primary question which was in the minds of the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and connected in the minds of thinkers down through the slavery controversy. It however remains with the earth every bit the trouble of democracy expands and touches all races and nations."
Westward. East. B. Du Boisin Blackness Reconstruction in America (1935)
Called past Mike Jirik, Ph.D. Candidate in the Section of History at UMass and 2019 Du Bois Eye Graduate Young man
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and patently common-sense.
W. E. B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction (1935)
"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, –all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, –who is adept? non that men are ignorant, –what is Truth? Nay, simply that men know so little of men."
West. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk(1903)
Chosen past Stacie Klinowski, Doctoral student in the English Department at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Eye Graduate Boyfriend
"At present is the accepted time, not tomorrow, non some more than convenient season. Information technology is today that our all-time work can be washed and not some future day or future year."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Chosen past Heather Brinn, Ph.D Candidate in the History Department at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Beau
W. E. B. Du Bois in his office belongings the first effect of The Crunch.
"The render from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's demand of that work. With this, life is heaven, or equally well-nigh sky as you can go."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Called by Khaleelah Harris, Master of Divinity pupil at Yale Divinity Schoolhouse and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Beau
"But one thing is certain and that is the fact that since the fifteenth century these ancestors of mine and their other descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and accept one long memory. The actual ties of heritage between the individuals of this group, vary with the ancestors that they have in common and many others: Europeans and Semites, possibly Mongolians, certainly American Indians. Only the physical bond is least and the badge of color relatively unimportant save as a badge; the real essence of this kinship is its social heritage of slavery; the discrimination and insult; and this heritage binds together not just the children of Africa, but extends through yellow Asia and into the South Seas. Information technology is this unity that draws me to Africa."
Due west. E. B. Du Bois in Dusk of Dawn(1940)
Called by Swati Birla, Historical Sociologist at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Eye Graduate Fellow
"Crucified on the vast bicycle of time, I flew round and round with the Zeitgeist, waving my pen and lifting faint voices to explain, expound and exhort; to see, foresee and prophesy, to the few who could or would mind."
West. Eastward. B. Du Bois
Chosen by Jingjing Zhang, Visiting Scholar in West.E.B Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Centre Graduate Fellow
Source: http://duboiscenter.library.umass.edu/du-bois-quotes/
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