Exceptional Man Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

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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…
• A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a…
• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom…
• 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 ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one…
• 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…
• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
• Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

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