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To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

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
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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But we do not merely protest we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
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One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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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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How shall Integrity face Oppression?
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Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
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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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If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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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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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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Histories of the world omitted China if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly forgot it and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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