| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17875 |
| QUOTATION: | Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868–1963), U.S. civil rights leader, author. (First published 1919). “Reconstruction and Africa,” vol. 2, The Seventh Son (1971). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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