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W. E. B. Du Bois

American Writer

Born: Feb 23, 1868

Died: Aug 27, 1963

Black Education Men People Work World

Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss Elbert Hubbard H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury William Arthur Ward

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. W. E. B. Du Bois

Life Work Education Must Simply Teach

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. W. E. B. Du Bois

Love Freedom Vote Ride Liberty Sunshine Space Will Men Beauty Believe Enjoy Thinking Dreaming Kingdom Color Arms Souls Friends Breathe Working Choose Railroads Right Stretch

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W. E. B. Du Bois

Liberty Cost Price Than Repression Less

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. W. E. B. Du Bois

Man Hardships Poor Man Bottom Dollars Very Race Poor Land Hard

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Eyes World Looking Sense Others Through Self Contempt Looks Always Tape Sensation Pity Measuring Amused Peculiar

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. W. E. B. Du Bois

Minds Wildly Weak Fires Untrained Stimulate Mighty Play

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development. W. E. B. Du Bois

God Time Soul Gift Opportunity Black Made Men White Believe Earth Alike Possibility All Nations Brothers Brown Feature Through Development Particular Blood Infinite Essential Dwell Nations Form Who Differing

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. W. E. B. Du Bois

Capitalism Self-Destruction Itself Reform Doomed Cannot

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. W. E. B. Du Bois

Justice Legal Political Consistency Important More Precedence Than Plain Right

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois

Life Soul School Thought Black Men Girl Long Breath White Living Machinery Out Black Or White Russian Study Mortar Houses Makes Piles Boy Real Boys And Girls Cultivated Trained Greek American Send Human Whether Them Breathes Themselves Teach Brick Human Soul Strengthened

Education is the development of power and ideal. W. E. B. Du Bois

Education Power Development Ideal

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. W. E. B. Du Bois

Soul Yourself Unpleasant Make Hand Upper Upper Hand Gain Your Things

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life. W. E. B. Du Bois

Life Best Good Communism Men Way Give Only Selfishness Effort Contribute Human Social Ask Human Life Each Universal Bring Need

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. W. E. B. Du Bois

People Worthy True Ideal False

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. W. E. B. Du Bois

Today Freedom Men Somebody Conceive Involve Most Does Cannot Slavery

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. W. E. B. Du Bois

Education Training School Matter Walls Men Single Definite System One Thing Object Mere Develops House Schools Within Without Does Nor Human Which Whole Thing

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. W. E. B. Du Bois

Work Education People Uplift

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. W. E. B. Du Bois

Work Rights Manly Complaint Striving Thousand Would Civil Civil Rights More Dogged Than Little Whining Us Less Bills Credit

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. W. E. B. Du Bois

Alone Strength Thoughts Dark Asunder Torn Feels Ideals Souls Dogged His American Being Body Warring Whose Ever Keeps Two

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? W. E. B. Du Bois

Work Leadership Survival Natural People First Sole Has-Been Retarded Mass Obstacles Educated Were Been Led Very Intelligent Efforts Unfit Race Race Prejudice Prejudice Internal Elevated Slavery

I was born free. W. E. B. Du Bois

Free Born

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