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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
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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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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.
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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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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
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