W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes


School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.


Citations

Du Bois, W. E. B. "The Talented Tenth." The Negro Problem, James Pott & Company, 1903.

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W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Born: February 23, 1868
  • Died: August 27, 1963
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Socialist, Socialogist, Historian, Activist

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the Friedrich Wilhelm University (in Berlin, Germany) and Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.