"Daily the Negro is coming more and more……" — W. E. B. Du Bois
"Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape."
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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113 Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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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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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
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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…
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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