On the record
Into their places are pushing the farmers and gardeners, the well-paid porters and artisans, the business-men,—all those with property and money.
Said by
W.E.B. Du Bois
Source
gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “Into their places are pushing the farmers and gardeners, the well-paid porters and artisans, the business-men,—all those…”
Editor's note · Context
He describes the emergence of new leaders in the Black community, particularly those with economic power.
Share
More from W.E.B. Du Bois
Jan 1, 1903
Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…
Jan 1, 1903
But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.
Jan 1, 1903
So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of “swift” and “slow” in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.
Jan 1, 1903
The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.