On the record
I worked for him thirty-seven days this spring, and he paid me in cardboard checks which were to be cashed at the end of the month.
Said by
W.E.B. Du Bois
Source
gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “I worked for him thirty-seven days this spring, and he paid me in cardboard checks which were to be cashed at the end of…”
Editor's note · Context
This quote illustrates the exploitation faced by laborers who were cheated out of their rightful wages.
Share
More from W.E.B. Du Bois
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
If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.
Jan 1, 1903
Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.
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…