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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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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence,…
— Unknown Author
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We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape.…
— Dennis Kucinich
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In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he…
— Albert Camus
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No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
— Annie Dillard
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You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it
— James Callaghan
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May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land,…
— George Washington
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Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.
— Leon Krier
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Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.
— Helen Keller
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Take courage. We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow
— Dwight L. Moody
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We are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015, women would be talking about 50 percent, no longer…
— Kema Chikwe
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A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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