To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOISTo stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOISLife 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.
W. E. B. DU BOISNow is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
W. E. B. DU BOISWhen 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.
W. E. B. DU BOISA man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
W. E. B. DU BOISIt is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe 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 BOISWhen 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.
W. E. B. DU BOISA 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 BOISIt is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
W. E. B. DU BOISRace prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
W. E. B. DU BOISLord, 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 BOISEducation is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. DU BOISNo universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
W. E. B. DU BOISWhen you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. DU BOISEducation must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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