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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
Men must not only know, they must act.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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.
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.