W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes

Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen "the Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord," Saw In Every Present Hindrance Or Help A Dark Fatalism Bound To Bring All Things Right In His Own Good Time. The Mass Of Those To Whom Slavery Was A Dim Recollection Of Childhood Found The World A Puzzling Thing: It Asked Little Of Them, And They Answered With Little, And Yet It Ridiculed Their Offering. Such A Paradox They Could Not Understand, And Therefore Sank Into Listless Indifference, Or Shiftlessness, Or Reckless Bravado. There Were, However, Some - Such As Josie, Jim, And Ben - To Whom War, Hell, And Slavery Were But Childhood Tales, Whose Young Appetites Had Been Whetted To An Edge By School And Story And Half-awakened Thought. Ill Could They Be Content, Born Without And Beyond The World. And Their Weak Wings Beat Against Their Barriers, - Barriers Of Caste, Of Youth, Of Life; At Last, In Dangerous Moments, Against Everything That Opposed Even A Whim.

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes: Those Whose Eyes Twenty-five And More Years Before Had Seen The Glory Of The Coming Of The Lord, Saw In

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