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Read & copy the quotation
“Of all worlds, may the good Lord deliver us from a world where everybody looks like his neighbor and thinks like his neighbor and is like his neighbor.”
- Date
- 1920
Meaning of “Of all worlds, may the good Lord deliver…”
Du Bois rejects enforced sameness, defending the value of people and groups retaining genuine difference rather than conforming to a majority ideal.
Where does it come from?
Darkwater, essay “Of Beauty and Death.” The preceding sentence says that simply wanting to be oneself can be inconceivable to “the average worshiper of the majority”; the line is about individuality amid racialized conformity pressures.
