W. E. B. Du Bois Short Quotes

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

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Not even a Harvard School of Business can turn greed into a science.

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In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger.

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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

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

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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

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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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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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We cannot refuse to cooperate with white Americans and simultaneously demand the right to cooperate!

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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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If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

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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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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

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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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The attempt to make black men American citizens was in a certain sense all a failure, but a splendid failure.

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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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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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If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. Education must not simply teach work— it must teach Life.

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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

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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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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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