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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe Justice Myself Pride Race
When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
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Human Justice Men Pain Progress
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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Black Fall History Past Shadow Stars World
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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Education Man Myself True
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.
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Art Atmosphere Creation Influence Ourselves Try
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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Atheist Color Intelligence Kind Men
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
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Disappointment Goodness Joy Life Pain Story World
I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.
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Better End Life Live Long Love People Play Work

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