W. E. B. Du Bois on heaven
W. E. B. Du Bois94 quotes“The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.”
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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down… Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois
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