A nation's religion is its life, and as such white Christianity is a miserable failure.
W.E.B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed graduate work at Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. He was a professor at Atlanta University and over the course of his life wrote many books and articles. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.
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She claimed no distinction, but it was yielded to her from her superior experience, energy, skill, and sagacity.
It is here that the future and mighty fight for Freedom must and will be made.
Get yourselves and your sons and daughters out of the shadow of this awful thing!
Of course, the foundation of such a system must be a high, ethical ideal.
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
Dust, dust and ashes, fly over my grave, But the Lord shall bear my spirit home.
Laborers, black laborers, on the Canal Zone write: "Out of this chaos may be the great awakening of our race.
The question was, then, he added reflectively, looking at the low discolored ceiling, what part the Negroes of this land would take in the striving of the new century.
Are we going to induce the best class of Negroes to take less and less interest in government, and to give up their right to take such an interest, without a protest?
America, Land of Democracy, wanted to believe in the failure of democracy so far as darker peoples were concerned.
But with all this, it is work in the pure open air, and this is something in a day when fresh air is scarce.