W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963
Birthday: February 23
Death: August 27
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.
source: W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.30, Oxford University Press
topic: Disappointment, Ignorance, Simple, Deep Disappointment
