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W.E.B. Du Bois słynne cytaty

„Zrodzeni w tropikach, obdarzeni zmysłową wrażliwością na piękno świata, nie dawali się łatwo sprowadzić do roli przykutych do maszyn koni pociągowych, którymi stali się robotnicy z północnej Europy. (…) skłonni byli podjąć pracę, gdy jej rezultaty sprawiały im przyjemność, a odmawiali jej – lub starali się jej odmawiać – jeśli jej duchowe efekty nie były w ich oczach odpowiednie; stąd łatwo było oskarżać ich o lenistwo i traktować jak niewolników, podczas gdy w rzeczywistości wnosili do nowoczesnej pracy fizycznej odnowiony szacunek do życia.”

W.E.B. Du Bois

o Afroamerykanach.
Źródło: The Gift of Black Folk; cyt. za: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 235.

„Skutkiem tego wszystkiego było przekonanie czarnoskórych Amerykanów, że ich największym wrogiem nie jest pracodawca, który ich okrada, lecz biały, będący towarzyszem pracy.”

W.E.B. Du Bois

w 1913 o wykorzystywaniu przez fabrykantów czarnych robotników najemnych jako łamistrajków i celowym podsycaniu rasistowskich poglądów wśród białych robotników.
Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 428.

„Ci niewolnicy mieli w swych rękach ogromną władzę. Po prostu zaprzestając pracy, mogli zagrozić Konfederacji widmem głodu. Idąc do obozów wojsk federalnych, dawali powątpiewającym żołnierzom Północy łatwą możliwość wykorzystania ich, lecz ten sam gest pozbawiał takiej możliwości ich przeciwników (…).
To właśnie ta prosta alternatywa doprowadziła do nagłej kapitulacji generała Lee. Południowcy mogli jedynie albo porozumieć się ze swymi niewolnikami, wyzwolić ich i użyć do walki z Północą – a zatem przestać traktować ich jak niewolników – albo poddać się Północy z nadzieją, że po wojnie zwycięzcy pomogą im zachować niewolnictwo, tak jak to miało miejsce wcześniej.”

W.E.B. Du Bois książka Black Reconstruction

Źródło: Black Reconstruction; cyt. za: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 255.

„Miejscowa siła robocza w krajach o wysokiej kulturze – uspokojona i zwiedziona przez system wyborów powszechnych, ściśle skrywający potęgę dyktatury wielkiego kapitału – została skorumpowana wysokimi płacami i stanowiskami politycznymi, aby zjednoczyć się w wyzysku białych, żółtych, brązowych i czarnych robotników w pomniejszych krajach.”

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Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 278.

„Bóg szlochał, ale nie miało to wielkiego znaczenia w tym stuleciu niewiary. Najbardziej liczyło się to, że świat płakał – i płacze nadal – oślepiony łzami i krwią. Bowiem to właśnie wtedy, w 1876 roku, zaczął wzrastać w Ameryce nowy kapitalizm i nowe zniewolenie ludzi pracy.”

W.E.B. Du Bois książka Black Reconstruction

Źródło: Black Reconstruction (1935); cyt. za: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 277.

„Problem XX wieku jest problemem linii koloru.”

W.E.B. Du Bois

Źródło: Howard Zinn, Ludowa historia Stanów Zjednoczonych. Od roku 1492 do dziś, tłum. Andrzej Wojtasik, Wyd. Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa 2016, s. 580.

W.E.B. Du Bois: Cytaty po angielsku

“Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also — and this was the highest proof of his greatness — he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate.”

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"On Stalin", in National Guardian (16 March 1953) https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/biographies/1953/03/16.htm

“I believe in God who made of one blood all races that dwell on earth. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.”

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Źródło: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. 132

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Souls of Black Folk

Źródło: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings

“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.”

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Źródło: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. xi

“Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? — for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Souls of Black Folk

Źródło: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XI: Of the Passing of the First-Born

“The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.”

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To His Newborn Great-Grandson, address on his ninetieth birthday (1958)

“Present-day students are often puzzled at the apparent contradictions of Southern slavery. One hears, on the one hand, of the staid and gentle patriarchy, the wide and sleepy plantations with lord and retainers, ease and happiness; on the other hand one hears of barbarous cruelty and unbridled power and wide oppression of men. Which is the true picture? The answer is simple: both are true. They are not opposite sides of the same shield; they are different shields.”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Negro

Źródło: The Negro (1915), Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

“I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”

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The Talented Tenth http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=174, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)

“It was a bright September afternoon, and the streets of New York were brilliant with moving men…. He was pushed toward the ticket-office with the others, and felt in his pocket for the new five-dollar bill he had hoarded…. When at last he realized that he had paid five dollars to enter he knew not what, he stood stock-still amazed…. John… sat in a half-maze minding the scene about him; the delicate beauty of the hall, the faint perfume, the moving myriad of men, the rich clothing and low hum of talking seemed all a part of a world so different from his, so strangely more beautiful than anything he had known, that he sat in dreamland, and started when, after a hush, rose high and clear the music of Lohengrin's swan. The infinite beauty of the wail lingered and swept through every muscle of his frame, and put it all a-tune. He closed his eyes and grasped the elbows of the chair, touching unwittingly the lady's arm. And the lady drew away. A deep longing swelled in all his heart to rise with that clear music out of the dirt and dust of that low life that held him prisoned and befouled. If he could only live up in the free air where birds sang and setting suns had no touch of blood! Who had called him to be the slave and butt of all?… If he but had some master-work, some life-service, hard, aye, bitter hard, but without the cringing and sickening servility…. When at last a soft sorrow crept across the violins, there came to him the vision of a far-off home — the great eyes of his sister, and the dark drawn face of his mother…. It left John sitting so silent and rapt that he did not for some time notice the usher tapping him lightly on the shoulder and saying politely, 'will you step this way please sir?'… The manager was sorry, very very sorry — but he explained that some mistake had been made in selling the gentleman a seat already disposed of; he would refund the money, of course… before he had finished John was gone, walking hurriedly across the square… and as he passed the park he buttoned his coat and said, 'John Jones you're a natural-born fool.”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Souls of Black Folk

Then he went to his lodgings and wrote a letter, and tore it up; he wrote another, and threw it in the fire....
Źródło: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XIII: Of the Coming of John

“Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy and consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.”

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Źródło: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. IX: Of the Sons of Master and Man

“Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.”

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Źródło: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. 10

“Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Negro

Źródło: The Negro (1915), Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Souls of Black Folk

Źródło: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. VI: Of the Training of Black Men

“I do not laugh. I am quite straight-faced as I ask soberly:
"But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?" Then always, somehow, some way, silently but clearly, I am given to understand that whiteness is the ownership of the earth forever and ever, Amen!
Now what is the effect on a man or a nation when it comes passionately to believe such an extraordinary dictum as this? That nations are coming to believe it is manifest daily. Wave on wave, each with increasing virulence, is dashing this new religion of whiteness on the shores of our time. Its first effects are funny: the strut of the Southerner, the arrogance of the Englishman amuck, the whoop of the hoodlum who vicariously leads your mob.”

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Darkwater http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15210/15210-h/15210-h.htm (1920), Ch. II: The Souls of White Folk

“The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.”

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Interview with Ralph McGill, quoted in The Atlantic Monthly (November 1965)

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”

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W.E.B. Du Bois książka The Negro

Źródło: The Negro (1915), Ch. XI: The Negro in the United States

“I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.”

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As quoted in Fighting Fire with Fire: African Americans and Hereditarian Thinking, 1900-1942 by Gregory Michael Dorr (RTF document) http://www.wfu.edu/~caron/ssrs/Dorr.rtf. Dorr dates this quote to 1910.

“The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.”

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Źródło: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. 104

“The Soviet Union does not allow any church of any kind to interfere with education, and religion is not taught in public schools. It seems to me that this is the greatest gift of the Russian Revolution to the modern world. Most educated modern men no longer believe in religious dogma. If questioned they will usually resort to double-talk before admitting the fact. But who today actually believes that this world is ruled and directed by a benevolent person of great power who, on humble appeal, will change the course of events at our request? Who believes in miracles? Many folk follow religious ceremonies and services and allow their children to learn fairy tales and so-called religious truth, which in time the children come to recognize as conventional lies told by their parents and teachers for the children's good. One can hardly exaggerate the moral disaster of the custom. We have to thank the Soviet Union for the courage to stop it.”

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The Autobiography of W.E. Burghardt Du Bois (1968), Ch. IV : The Soviet Union; he later states in Ch. XVI : My Character: "I think the greatest gift of the Soviet Union to modern civilization was the dethronement of the clergy and the refusal to let religion be taught in the public schools."

“There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.”

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The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1897), ch. XII: The Essentials in the Struggle, paragraph 93: "The Moral Movement" http://web.archive.org/20000818045142/members.tripod.com/~DuBois/supp.html