Belief Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

“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 what colored men make of it.”

W. E. B. Du Bois

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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,…

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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

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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 their presence…

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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the…

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Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at…

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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code…

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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen…

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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art…

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The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the…

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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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As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

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