On the record
Insane, wicked, and wasteful as the tyranny of the few over the many may be, it is not more dangerous than the tyranny of the many over the few.
Said by
W.E.B. Du Bois
Source
gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “Insane, wicked, and wasteful as the tyranny of the few over the many may be, it is not more dangerous than the tyranny…”
Editor's note · Context
He argues that the tyranny of the majority can be just as dangerous as that of the minority.
Share
More from W.E.B. Du Bois
Jan 1, 1903
And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.
Jan 1, 1903
Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.
Jan 1, 1903
To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…
Jan 1, 1903
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.