Du Bois
Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." 12 p.
Bois was leader of the Niagara Movement, who claimed they wanted equal rights for blacks. But opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities.
Instead, Du Bois insisted on what he calls full civil rights and increased political representation, .... He thought this umbrella of racial uplift providing schools ... Of course this was at someone else's expense.
be brought about by the African-American "intellectual elite".
He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth
"I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." Thomas Sowell
“I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools."
“We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” W. E. B. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)
“The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” Du Bois
“The true significance of slavery in the United States to the whole social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in the United States?
If all labor, black as well as white, became free – were given schools and the right to vote – what control could or should be set to the power and action of these laborers?
Was the rule of the mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to all men regardless of race and color, or if not, what power of dictatorship and control; and how would property and privilege be protected? This was the great and primary question which was in the minds of the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and continued in the minds of thinkers down through the slavery controversy. It still remains with the world as the problem of democracy expands and touches all races and nations.” W. E. B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." Thomas Sowell
- ... Know-it-alls in the school system do not lose one dime or one hour's sleep if their bright ideas turn out to be all wrong, or even disastrous, for the child."
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." 12 p.
Bois was leader of the Niagara Movement, who claimed they wanted equal rights for blacks. But opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities.
Instead, Du Bois insisted on what he calls full civil rights and increased political representation, ... He thought this umbrella of racial uplift providing schools ... Of course this was at someone else's expense.
This was to be brought about by the African-American "intellectual elite".
He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth
"I have never understood why it is 'greed' to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money." Thomas Sowell
“I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools."
“We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.” W. E. B. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)
“The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.” Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” Du Bois
His Marriage was not a great success having numerous afairs.
“The true significance of slavery in the United States to the whole social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in the United States?"
"If all labor, black as well as white, became free – were given schools and the right to vote – what control could or should be set to the power and action of these laborers?"
"Was the rule of the mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to all men regardless of race and color, or if not, what power of dictatorship and control; and how would property and privilege be protected? This was the great and primary question which was in the minds of the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and continued in the minds of thinkers down through the slavery controversy. It still remains with the world as the problem of democracy expands and touches all races and nations.” Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America