W.E.B. Du Bois
American · 1868–1963
American sociologist, historian, and civil rights activist whose concept of double consciousness and prophetic analysis of the color line shaped the intellectual foundations of the modern civil rights movement.
Wikipedia ↗“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”
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“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
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“One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
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“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 good? Not that men are ignorant — what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
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“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
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“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
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