"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not." — W. E. B. Du Bois

"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not."

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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113 Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois has 113 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness…
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the…
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals…
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words…
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not…
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

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