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The first paragraph in the first chapter was W.E.B. DuBois. The rest was mostly commentary. Below are a couple other things he said to compare to the rest of chapter one's Donhoff commentary convicting the States. For example, G. William Donhoff says that America's slaves were released so that the North could win the Civil War when it was actually over South Carolina's effort to sucede from the Union. President Lincoln said, it was "by the ballot" that decisions for the Union are made. He backed that up with the Civil War and then came the freedom. So Donhoff has an agenda that has a bit of a twist in it.
Felix Haywood; former slave:
Freedom. "The end of the war came like that--you snap your fingers. Soldiers, all of a sudden, was everwha'-- coming' in bunches, crossin' and walkin', and ridin'. Every one was singin' We was all walkin' on golden clouds. Hallelujah!"
DuBoise was very educated and had exceptional vision for the future of the Black race."
He believed in the "soul of democracy". DuBois said, "Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched -- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led -- this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society."
He was a man who's words were more like intellectual poetry than brutal anger.
"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging, he wishes neither for the older selves to be lost. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both Negro and an American"
DuBoise wasn't looking for mobocracy using in-cinerary language. He said,
"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy America."
Felix Haywood; former slave:
Freedom. "The end of the war came like that--you snap your fingers. Soldiers, all of a sudden, was everwha'-- coming' in bunches, crossin' and walkin', and ridin'. Every one was singin' We was all walkin' on golden clouds. Hallelujah!"
DuBoise was very educated and had exceptional vision for the future of the Black race."
He believed in the "soul of democracy". DuBois said, "Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched -- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led -- this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society."
He was a man who's words were more like intellectual poetry than brutal anger.
"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging, he wishes neither for the older selves to be lost. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both Negro and an American"
DuBoise wasn't looking for mobocracy using in-cinerary language. He said,
"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy America."
