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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.