Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging …

W. E. B. Du Bois
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.74, Oxford University Press
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground. ✨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.74, Oxford University Press

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