"There is in this world no such force……" — W. E. B. Du Bois
"There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained."
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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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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race,…
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
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We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
— Bela Lugosi
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Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and…
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
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True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or…
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Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when…
— Fisher Ames
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There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or…
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