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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
