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4.27 AVERAGE
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"'John,' she said, 'does it make every one --- unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?'
He paused and smiled. 'I am afraid it does,' he said.
'And, John, are you glad you studied?'
'Yes,' came the answer, slowly but positively.
She watched the flickering lights upon the sea, and said thoughtfully, 'I wish I was unhappy, --- and --- and,' putting both arms about his neck, 'I think I am, a little, John.'"
He paused and smiled. 'I am afraid it does,' he said.
'And, John, are you glad you studied?'
'Yes,' came the answer, slowly but positively.
She watched the flickering lights upon the sea, and said thoughtfully, 'I wish I was unhappy, --- and --- and,' putting both arms about his neck, 'I think I am, a little, John.'"
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4 because of the place and role in history this book has/has played.
A super important book.
A super important book.
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"Sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins."
"It is easy for us to lose ourselves in details, in endeavoring to grasp and comprehend the real condition of a mass of human beings. We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human soul. Ignorant it may be and poverty stricken. Black and curious in limbs, in ways, in thoughts. And yet it loves, it hates, it toils and tires, it laughs and weeps its bitter tears, and looks in vague and awful longing at the grim horizon of its life."
"Throughout the category of means for intellectual communication: schools, conferences, efforts for social betterment and the life; it is usually true the very representatives of the two races, who, for mutual benefit and the welfare of the land out to be in complete understanding and sympathy are so far strangers that one side thinks all whites are narrow and prejudiced, and the other thinks educated negros dangerous and insolent...Such a situation is so difficult to correct. The white man as well as the negro is bound and barred by the color line...because some busy body has forced the color question to the front, and brought the tremendous force of unwritten law against the innovators."
"In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly in his eyes and feel his heart beating red blood. In a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches. One can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races. Who's separation extends even to parks and street cars. Here then can be none of the social going down to the people, the opening of heart and hand of the best to the worst, in general acknowledgement of a common humanity and a common destiny."
"We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for the harvest of disaster to our children, black and white."
"By refusing to give this talented tenth the key to knowledge, can any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become hewers of wood and drawers of water? No. The dangerously clear logic of the negros position will more and more loudly assert itself in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organizations preclude the south from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk."
"Behind the thought lies the after thought 'Suppose, after all, the world is right and we are less than men. Suppose this mad impulse within is all wrong. Some mock moorage from the untrue.' So here we sink among thoughts of unity, even conquest and slavery, the inferiority of black man even if enforced by fraud, a shriek in the night for the freedom of men who even themselves are not even sure of their right to demand. This is the tangle of thought and after thought for which we are called to solve the training of men for life....Only that same earned selfishness from which education teaches can find the rights of all in the world of work."
"The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land."
From Bill about the history of the book "The Souls of Black Folk was published in 1903, and just as the two directions of black leadership in the tumultuous 60's and '70's were symbolized by Martin and Malcolm, the two directions at the turn of the last century—a period punctuated by lynchings and race riots—were embodied in Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Washington, born a slave in the South, urged blacks, at least for the present, to accept Jim Crow and disenfranchisement in return for safety and peace, while they concentrated on attending trade schools and developing--and demonstrating to white society--their integrity and character. (White society praised Washington; Theodore Roosevelt invited him to dinner at the White House.) W.E.B. Du Bois, born free in the North, insisted on the vote and full civil rights, and encouraged the development of black intellectuals, the “talented tenth," urging them to complete not only four years of college, but post-graduate degrees as well. (Du Bois was the first black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard).
In this collection of fourteen essays, his first great influential work, Du Bois begins by anatomizing racism and analyzing its consequences, most notably how racism—particularly “the color line”—places every black person beneath the “veil,” creating a special way of seeing—painful, but also illuminating—which comes from being set apart. In “The Dawn of Freedom,” he offers a perceptive view of reconstruction, and in “Of Booker T. Washington and Others” he coldly, devastatingly, holds up Washington's ideas for critical examination. Throughout the first quarter of the work, he excels in conveying sociological insights in a magisterial--almost biblical—fashion."
"It is easy for us to lose ourselves in details, in endeavoring to grasp and comprehend the real condition of a mass of human beings. We often forget that each unit in the mass is a throbbing human soul. Ignorant it may be and poverty stricken. Black and curious in limbs, in ways, in thoughts. And yet it loves, it hates, it toils and tires, it laughs and weeps its bitter tears, and looks in vague and awful longing at the grim horizon of its life."
"Throughout the category of means for intellectual communication: schools, conferences, efforts for social betterment and the life; it is usually true the very representatives of the two races, who, for mutual benefit and the welfare of the land out to be in complete understanding and sympathy are so far strangers that one side thinks all whites are narrow and prejudiced, and the other thinks educated negros dangerous and insolent...Such a situation is so difficult to correct. The white man as well as the negro is bound and barred by the color line...because some busy body has forced the color question to the front, and brought the tremendous force of unwritten law against the innovators."
"In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly in his eyes and feel his heart beating red blood. In a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches. One can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races. Who's separation extends even to parks and street cars. Here then can be none of the social going down to the people, the opening of heart and hand of the best to the worst, in general acknowledgement of a common humanity and a common destiny."
"We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for the harvest of disaster to our children, black and white."
"By refusing to give this talented tenth the key to knowledge, can any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become hewers of wood and drawers of water? No. The dangerously clear logic of the negros position will more and more loudly assert itself in that day when increasing wealth and more intricate social organizations preclude the south from being, as it so largely is, simply an armed camp for intimidating black folk."
"Behind the thought lies the after thought 'Suppose, after all, the world is right and we are less than men. Suppose this mad impulse within is all wrong. Some mock moorage from the untrue.' So here we sink among thoughts of unity, even conquest and slavery, the inferiority of black man even if enforced by fraud, a shriek in the night for the freedom of men who even themselves are not even sure of their right to demand. This is the tangle of thought and after thought for which we are called to solve the training of men for life....Only that same earned selfishness from which education teaches can find the rights of all in the world of work."
"The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land."
From Bill about the history of the book "The Souls of Black Folk was published in 1903, and just as the two directions of black leadership in the tumultuous 60's and '70's were symbolized by Martin and Malcolm, the two directions at the turn of the last century—a period punctuated by lynchings and race riots—were embodied in Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Washington, born a slave in the South, urged blacks, at least for the present, to accept Jim Crow and disenfranchisement in return for safety and peace, while they concentrated on attending trade schools and developing--and demonstrating to white society--their integrity and character. (White society praised Washington; Theodore Roosevelt invited him to dinner at the White House.) W.E.B. Du Bois, born free in the North, insisted on the vote and full civil rights, and encouraged the development of black intellectuals, the “talented tenth," urging them to complete not only four years of college, but post-graduate degrees as well. (Du Bois was the first black person to earn a doctorate from Harvard).
In this collection of fourteen essays, his first great influential work, Du Bois begins by anatomizing racism and analyzing its consequences, most notably how racism—particularly “the color line”—places every black person beneath the “veil,” creating a special way of seeing—painful, but also illuminating—which comes from being set apart. In “The Dawn of Freedom,” he offers a perceptive view of reconstruction, and in “Of Booker T. Washington and Others” he coldly, devastatingly, holds up Washington's ideas for critical examination. Throughout the first quarter of the work, he excels in conveying sociological insights in a magisterial--almost biblical—fashion."
A classic, can’t believe I haven’t read it yet. “The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.” Definitely didn’t get all of it, but understood the gist, I think. Would need to reread for a more thorough understanding of Du Bois.
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