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W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
W. E. B. Du Bois
American
Writer
Born:
Feb 23
,
1868
Died:
Aug 27
,
1963
Black
Education
Men
People
Work
World
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Negroes
Lazy
Race
St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Three
Calm
Cloud
Meet
Broad
Valleys
High
City
Lies
Atmosphere
Rivers
Instead
Over
Louis
St. Louis
Where
Stories
Mighty
Illinois
Wide
Streets
Wider
Two
Philadelphia
The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Starvation
Negroes
System
Systematic
Deliberately
Cruel
South
Oppressive
Did
Mean
Slavery
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Leadership
Courage
Corresponding
Abraham
Abraham Lincoln
Absence
Lincoln
South
Any
Breadth
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