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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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Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Race prejudice is the devil unchained.
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding…
— Booker T. Washington
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I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will…
— Harry S. Truman
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I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to…
— Mary Church Terrell
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We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles…
— Charles Hamilton Houston
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Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
— Francis James Grimke
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Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,…
— Mordecai
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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The arrogance of race prejudice is an arrogance which defies what is scientifically known of human races.
— Ruth Benedict
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Race prejudice is a gift of nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
— H P Lovecraft
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