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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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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...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 shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.
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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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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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It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
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The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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