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W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views

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  This time period put material things ahead of fellow human beings simply because of race.
  
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When sticks and stones and beasts form the sole environment of a people, their attitude is largely one of determined opposition to and conquest of natural forces.
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  When people resort to acting like animals, the rest of the world will fall.
  
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But, nevertheless, they insist that the way to truth and right lies in straightforward honesty, not in indiscriminate flattery; in praising those of the South who do well and criticising uncompromisingly those who do ill; in taking advantage of the opportunities at hand and urging their fellows to do the same, but at the same time in remembering that only a firm adherence to their higher ideals and aspirations will ever keep those ideals within the realm of possibility.
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  Two groups believe in the same thing- freedom. But they both have different ways of demanding it.
  
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