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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
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.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
