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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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W. E. B. Du Bois
Age: 95 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: August 27
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Great Barrington
Massachusetts
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In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.
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[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.
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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
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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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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
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Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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