The artist must elect to figh t fo r freedom or
fo r slavery. / ha ve made m y choice. Z had no
alternative. The history o f the capitalist era is
characterized by the degradation o f m y people:
despoiled o f their lands, their culture destroyed
. . . denied equal protection o f the law, and
deprived o f their rightful place in the respect o f
their fellows.
—Pau! Robeson
They sang to forget the chains and misery.
The sorrow will one day turn to joy. A ll that
breaks the heart and oppresses the soul will one
day give place to peace and understanding, and
every man will be free. That is the interpretation
o f the true Negro spiritual.
—Paul Robeson
“ Education and work
are the levers to uplift
a people.”
No race can prosper
'till it learns there is
as much dignity in tilling a field
— W.E.B. DuBois
as in writing a poem.
1 ’
— Booker T. Washington
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WILLIAM EDWARD B l ROH ART DLBOIS (1868-1963)
S C H O L A R , S P O K E S M A N , W R IT E R . Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Won schjlar-
ships to Fisk and Howard Universities and the University of Berlin. Headed department of history
and economics at Atlanta University for 13 years. Wrote for Atlantic Monthly and other mag
azines. One of the founders of the NAACP in 1908 and editor of its Crisis Magazine In 1919,
launched Pan African Congresses in Parts. Published many outstanding books First Negro elected
to membership in National Institute of Arts & Letters, 1943. Regarded as one of the most pro
found scholars of his time and generation and the dean' of Negro Intellectuals.
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