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W. E. B. Du Bois

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (/duːˈbɔɪs/ doo-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Develops, Education, House, Men, School, Wall

Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.

America, Dark, Hands, Race, Scurrying

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.

Like, Pull, Teacher, Teaching, Work, You Like It

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Glory, Handiwork, Pay, Thinking, Work, Worker

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Children, Learn, Peace, Teach, Teacher

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

Pretty, Stills, Want, Women, World

The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays. . . philanthropy begs.

Beauties, Business, Optimism, Risk, Tear

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

Art, Art Is, Propaganda

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

Calling, Done, Excuse, Often Is, Poorly, Thing

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.

Black History, Dark, Souls, Strength, Two

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

Black, Easier, Men, Nothing, United, United States

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

Hard, Land, Man, Men, Race

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

Believe, Deep, Pride, Race, Selves

In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.

Believe, Names, Party, Polls, Two

Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

Contribution, Country, Economic, Inspiring, Religious, White

It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.

Beautiful, Honorable, Mean, Men, Strong

This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization in America as a Black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

Compromise, Fight, Fighting, Men, Winning, Wins

Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.

Civilization, Country, European, Touch, White

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

Agitation, Ancient, Complain, Complaining, Complaint, Liberty

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Century, Color, Lines, Racism, Twentieth

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