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W. E. B. Du Bois

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But what of black women?... 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 Bois


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A 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 Bois


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


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.


— W. E. B. Du Bois


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NAACP leaders offered Du Bois the position of Director of Publicity and Research. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

E. He referred to this group as the talented tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.

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