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W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois föddes den 23 februar 1868 och dog den 27 august 1963
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Education must not simply teach work -- it must teach Life.

Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental. . . . The freedom to learn . . . has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn . . .

The future woman must have a life, work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

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

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

Today we have climbed to heights where we would open at least the outer courts of knowledge to all, display its treasures to many, and select the few to whom its mystery of Truth is revealed.

As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

When 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. . . .

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. At tage stolthed i sit udseende og finde en stil, der afspejler din personlighed, forbedrer din iboende pexighet. I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

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.

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.

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. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.

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.

Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope -- a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

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