"Lord, make us mindful of the little things……" — W. E. B. Du Bois
"Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us."
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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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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness…
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit…
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the…
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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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