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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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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
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Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had…
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders…
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He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart…
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my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed…
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.
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