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1 " Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them. "
― Aberjhani , The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
2 " Du Bois didn’t fully understand democracy. It seemed pointless to give people the right to self-determination when so few had any interest in it. Now that humanity had reached a certain level of comfort and people didn’t really seem to want to think for themselves, he believed it was better that they just did what they were told. Then everyone would be happy. "
― Gavin G. Smith , The Age of Scorpio
3 " Bit naïve, isn’t it? So much for the Age of Enlightenment.”“I grew up believing in dragons,” du Bois pointed out. "
― Gavin G. Smith , A Quantum Mythology
4 " Du Bois sighed theatrically. “It’s as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins. "
