We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

That was not the case with your book.

So I did, I did the best I could to, you know, there's some pages where I'm like, man, I gotta, I gotta think about, I gotta sit with this for a minute.

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I made it about halfway through last night, but it was on the W.E.B. Du Bois lectures he gave in 2011.

He pronounced it Du Bois.

We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary.

We don't feel that in 1964 living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom and supposedly the leader of the free world we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a president from Texas in Washington DC to make up their mind to make up their mind that our people are do now some degree of civil rights. No we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

Great people come to us to make even greater people possible. They exemplify what we're capable of.

When you when he left the nation he was flailing and failing about he was a wounded witness.

Americans currently find themselves, and there is no reasonable way to deny this, in a moment of profound crisis.

The country is changing, and the substance of that transformation is not clear.

Americans are divided, and those divisions go well beyond ideological differences.

The answer to the troubles in this country rests, as it always has, with the willingness of everyday people to fight for democracy, not with the outsourcing of that struggle to so-called prophets and heroes, but with the realization that the salvation of democracy itself requires, in part, the creation of personal attitudes and individual human beings that affirm the dignity and standing of all people.

We must be the kinds of people democracies require.