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Us Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights…
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
- Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil…
- Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
- How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife…
- Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls…
- Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong