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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Men must not only know, they must act.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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.
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.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
