“Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.” – W. E. B. Du Bois

 

“Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.” – W. E. B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was a sociologist, historian, author, Pan-Africanist, and civil rights activist. Among his many accomplishments, he was one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909. He wrote against Jim Crow laws and discrimination, advocating for full civil rights and political representation for Black people. Black Reconstruction in America (1935), where the above quote is from, challenged the then-mainstream belief that Black people were responsible for the failure of the Reconstruction Era.