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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”. Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at...
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W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc....
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Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.66, Courier...
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- “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” ― W.E.B. DuBois.
- “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois.
- “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois.
- “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” ― W.E.B. DuBois.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence o...
He was at once a scientist in his skillful use of history as a tool for comprehending the present, and a prophet in the application of his gift for analyzing the present as an indicator of the futu...
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Watch on. In November 2020, friends of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center shared a series of quotes by Du Bois that resonate in our own time. The quotes below were chosen by the 2019 cohort of Du Bois Center graduate and post-doctoral fellows.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- 1903
- “Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth?
- “One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
- “The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
- “After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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Freedom and Liberty. The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W.E.B. Du Bois: John Brown. Race and Ethnic Heritage. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk. Famous quotes of W.E.B. Du Bois.
