The Slave Went Free
The quotes beneath were chosen past the 2019 cohort of Du Bois Heart graduate and post-doctoral fellows.
Du Bois Center Fellows Favorite Du Bois Quotes
Group portrait of Du Bois and friends and family at his 70th birthday celebration at Atlanta Academy, 1938.
"Between me and the other earth there is always an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, notwithstanding, flutter round it. They arroyo me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored human in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the humid to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a give-and-take."
Due west. East. B. Du Boisin The Souls of Blackness Folk(1903)
Chosen by Jay Cephas, Banana Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at Northeastern Academy and 2019 Du Bois Heart Post-Doctoral Fellow
"Y'all are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live."
Westward. E. B. Du Bois in The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois(1968)
Chosen by Freeden Blume Oeur, Associate Professor of Folklore and Education at Tufts University and 2019 Du Bois Heart Mail service-Doctoral Boyfriend
"We say easily, for instance, 'The ignorant ought not to vote.' We would say, 'No civilized state should have citizens likewise ignorant to participate in government,' and this statement is only a stride to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule information technology."
W. E. B. Du Bois in Of the Ruling of Men (1920)
Chosen by Adam Dahl, Assistant Professor of Political Scientific discipline at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Eye Mail service-Doctoral Fellow
"The slave went free; stood a cursory moment in the sun; then moved back once more toward slavery."
W. E. B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen by Alexandria Russell, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Rutgers Academy and 2019 Du Bois Centre Post-Doctoral Young man
"Children learn more from what you are than what you lot teach."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Chosen by Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn, German and Scandinavian Studies, Academy of Massachusetts Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Young man
"Reader of dead words who would live deeds, this is the flowering of my logic: I dream of a globe of infinitive and valuable variety; not in the laws of gravity or diminutive weights, but in human variety in meridian and weight, color and skin, pilus and olfactory organ and lip. Merely more particularly and far above and beyond this, is a realm of true freedom: in thought and dream, fantasy and imagination; in souvenir, aptitude, and genius—all possible style of difference, topped with freedom of soul to do and exist, and liberty of idea to give to a globe and build into it, all wealth of inborn individuality. Each endeavour to terminate this freedom of being is a accident at democracy—that real republic which is reservoir and opportunity . . . There can be no perfect republic curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all nosotros accomplish all, even Peace."
W. E. B. Du Bois in The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History (Oxford University Press, 2007 [1947]), 165.
Chosen by Phillip Sinitiere, Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies, Houston, TX and 2019 Du Bois Heart Postal service-Doctoral Fellow
"Perhaps fifty-fifty higher than strength and fine art loom human sympathy and sacrifice as characteristic of Negro womanhood"
W. E. B. Du Bois in The Damnation of Women (1920)
Chosen by Sarah Holm Tanzi, 2019 Du Bois Center Post-Doctoral Swain
Viewing ceremony parade from balcony of ancient Royal Palace in Peking, Oct. one, 1962.
"Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do keen and cute things. And shall we non best guide humanity by telling the truth most all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?"
Westward. East. B. Du Boisin Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen by Eliza Araújo, Visiting Scholar at UMass AFROAm Department, Ph.D student at Universidade Federal da Paraíba, and 2019 Du Bois Eye Graduate Fellow
"But what of Black women?… I most sincerely doubt if whatsoever other race of women could take brought its fineness up through so devilish a burn down."
West. E. B. Du Bois
Chosen by Venus Greenish, Doctoral student in Sociology at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Beau
"Beneath the Veil lay correct and wrong, vengeance and love, and sometimes throwing bated the veil, a soul of sweetness Beauty and Truth stood revealed."
Westward. E. B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen by Aaron Yates, Doctoral student in Sociology at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Swain
"I believe in pride of race and lineage and self; in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves."
West. East. B. Du Bois
Called by Samantha Davis, Doctoral educatee in Political Scientific discipline at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Eye Graduate Swain
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois seated in study property newspaper.
"The true significance of slavery in the U.s. to the whole social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves to democracy. What were to be the limits of autonomous control in the United states? If all labor, black besides as white, became free – were given schools and the right to vote – what control could or should be set to the ability 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 ability of dictatorship and command; and how would belongings 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. Information technology withal remains with the globe every bit the problem of democracy expands and touches all races and nations."
West. E. B. Du Boisin Black Reconstruction in America (1935)
Chosen by Mike Jirik, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at UMass and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Fellow
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more of import than right, justice and plain common-sense.
W. E. B. Du Bois in Black Reconstruction (1935)
"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, –all men know something of poverty; non that men are wicked, –who is good? not that men are ignorant, –what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so fiddling of men."
W. East. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk(1903)
Chosen past Stacie Klinowski, Doctoral educatee in the English Department at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Centre Graduate Fellow
"Now is the accepted fourth dimension, non tomorrow, not some more than convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future twenty-four hour period or hereafter year."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Chosen past Heather Brinn, Ph.D Candidate in the History Department at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Beau
Westward. Eastward. B. Du Bois in his function property the outset upshot of The Crisis.
"The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world'southward need of that work. With this, life is sky, or equally well-nigh heaven as you can become."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Chosen past Khaleelah Harris, Principal of Divinity student at Yale Divinity Schoolhouse and 2019 Du Bois Centre Graduate Young man
"But 1 matter is sure and that is the fact that since the fifteenth century these ancestors of mine and their other descendants accept had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and accept ane long retention. The actual ties of heritage between the individuals of this group, vary with the ancestors that they take in common and many others: Europeans and Semites, maybe Mongolians, certainly American Indians. But the physical bond is least and the badge of colour relatively unimportant save every bit a badge; the real essence of this kinship is its social heritage of slavery; the bigotry and insult; and this heritage binds together not just the children of Africa, only extends through xanthous Asia and into the South Seas. Information technology is this unity that draws me to Africa."
W. E. B. Du Bois in Dusk of Dawn(1940)
Chosen past Swati Birla, Historical Sociologist at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Center Graduate Fellow
"Crucified on the vast wheel of time, I flew round and round with the Zeitgeist, waving my pen and lifting faint voices to explain, expound and exhort; to meet, foresee and prophesy, to the few who could or would listen."
W. E. B. Du Bois
Called by Jingjing Zhang, Visiting Scholar in Westward.E.B Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst and 2019 Du Bois Middle Graduate Boyfriend
Source: http://duboiscenter.library.umass.edu/du-bois-quotes/
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