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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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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
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I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.
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I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on…
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For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get…
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When a society is criticised by outsiders, its members wince but shrug their shoulders. 'What you can expect from strangers?' is the…
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I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word…
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like…
— Mark Haddon
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Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the…
— Emily Dickinson
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The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward…
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is…
— Samuel Johnson
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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own…
— Graham Greene
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