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Source: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
"Is it possible and probable that nine millions of men can make effective progress in economic lines
if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meagre
chance for developing their exceptional men? If history and reason give any distinct answer to
these questions it is an emphatic No....
"Such men, [the thinking classes of American Negroes] feel in conscience bound to ask of this nation
.three things:
1.
2.
13.
The right to vote
Civic equality
The education of youth according to ability
"They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come
in a moment; they do not expect to see the bias and prejudices of years disappear at the blast of a
trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the way for a people to gain their reasonable rights is
not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them; that the way for
a people to gain respect is not by continually belittling and ridiculing themselves; that, on the
contrary, Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to
modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as
well as white boys."](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F2d3d0313-ca74-43cf-98c7-55eac5c05caf%2F0f646362-6b13-4cf0-8d84-733abe377a9b%2Fug28xde_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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Source: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
"Is it possible and probable that nine millions of men can make effective progress in economic lines
if they are deprived of political rights, made a servile caste, and allowed only the most meagre
chance for developing their exceptional men? If history and reason give any distinct answer to
these questions it is an emphatic No....
"Such men, [the thinking classes of American Negroes] feel in conscience bound to ask of this nation
.three things:
1.
2.
13.
The right to vote
Civic equality
The education of youth according to ability
"They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come
in a moment; they do not expect to see the bias and prejudices of years disappear at the blast of a
trumpet; but they are absolutely certain that the way for a people to gain their reasonable rights is
not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them; that the way for
a people to gain respect is not by continually belittling and ridiculing themselves; that, on the
contrary, Negroes must insist continually, in season and out of season, that voting is necessary to
modern manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as
well as white boys."
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