Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
W. E. B. DU BOISW. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
Full Name:William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Walk of life:Sociologist
Born:23 February 1868, US
Died:27 August 1963, Accra, Ghana
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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
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Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
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But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
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