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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
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.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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.
