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| W. E. B. DuBois
An american, a Negro ... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. Drunk with power, we [the US] are leading the world to hell in a new colonialism with the same old human slavery, which once ruined us, to a third world war, which will ruin the world. I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. |
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