Quotables: WEB DuBois on Ambition

arriannaplaney29. October 200914. July 2012History, Race, Randomness

“There is in this world no such force as the force o a person determined to rise.”

W.E.B. DuBois, “Race Prejudice,” speech, Republican Club, NYC, NY (March 5, 1910)

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Alumna of the University of California, Berkeley & the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. View all posts by arriannaplaney

2 Comments

Roy says:

23. May 2012 at 21:22

Didn’t Du Bois say ‘person’ (not man)?

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1. aconerlycoleman says:
  
  14. July 2012 at 19:25
  
  You are correct. Let me edit that.
  
  Reply

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