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Men must not only know, they must act.

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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Human Rights Activist
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Great Barrington
Massachusetts
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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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If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
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The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.
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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
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I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.
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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means
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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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The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.
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Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.
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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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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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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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How shall Integrity face Oppression?
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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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