I Refused To Teach Sunday School. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, My Last Rector, Died, I Flatly Refused Again To Join Any Church Or Sign Any Church Creed. From My 30th Year On I Have Increasingly Regarded The Church As An Institution Which Defended Such Evils As Slavery, Color Caste, Exploitation Of Labor And War.

-W. E. B. Du Bois

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I Refused To Teach Sunday School. When

W. E. B. Du Bois

I Refused To Teach Sunday School. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, My Last Rector, Died, I Flatly Refused Again To Join Any Church Or Sign Any Church Creed. From My 30th Year On I Have Increasingly Regarded The Church As An Institution Which Defended Such Evils As Slavery, Color Caste, Exploitation Of Labor And War.

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War

School

Sunday

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.

Disappointment

Ignorance

Simple