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W. E. B. Du Bois has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through…
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a…
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one…
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading…
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America into a prison house of the…
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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about…
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I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.
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A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
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The world is not a prison house but a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell…
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I am thy father's spirit, Doomed for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in…
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And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory dowe come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us…
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