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World Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by…
- Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
- All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and…
- Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing…
- The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is…
- The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
- When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is…
- It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its…
- The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers…
- Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
- Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of…
- Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world…
- Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all reasonable possibility, be…
- We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
- I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
- There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well…
- The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this…
- The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else…
- But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of…
- Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization…
- There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- 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
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach