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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
