W. E. B. Du Bois on determination
“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
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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 The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Michael JordanMichael Jordan What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
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