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Man Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
- This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization…
- A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
- Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller…
- One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not…
- When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is…
- Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
- I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride…
- The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into…
- And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the…
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