W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington - 47 views
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shaylas_ on 03 Oct 14To have been able to dine with President Roosevelt is an amazing accomplishment and an honor, especially since Washington was a black man.
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I wonder why they envied him and tried to bring him down instead of trying to be like him. His own accomplishments should have motivated them.
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In the history of nearly all other races and peoples the doctrine preached at such crises has been that manly self-respect is worth more than lands and houses, and that a people who voluntarily surrender such respect, or cease striving for it, are not worth civilizing.
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"Self-respect is work more than lands and houses" This quote really sticks out to me. It goes along with my This I believe paper.
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