W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

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• Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
• But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a…
• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights…
• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by…
• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose…
• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
• When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will…
• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be…
• Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
• A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
• Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
• Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil…
• Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
• Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
• So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd…
• All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and…

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