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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
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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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...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.
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We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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But art is not simply works of art it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
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I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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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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Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message?. . . The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty. . . .
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Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent which will be healthy and unafraid and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!
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If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.
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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.
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The world is shrinking together it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
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The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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