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White Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization…
- Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the…
- It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and…
- Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is…
- I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing…
- We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
- Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
- I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.
- ...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,…
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- True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white… — Honore de Balzac