Whereas, William Edward Burghardt Dubois said the African American had two souls, two thoughts, and two fighting principles in one dark body. He wrote about Washington that he had no higher education and no social integrity to make a whole community for African American. He opposed Washington on vocational training and thought Washington was a misguided leader. Dubois knew the problem in gender discrimination and he believed that academic education would achieve full citizenship for black people. In the opposing viewpoints in context by Donna Batten that Dubois wrote a statement of his desired and his beliefs for a social change:
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the