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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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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

- Francis Bacon

Other quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

Land Man

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

Words Fact Books Will

When 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 Bois

Liberty

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Work

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

Eyes Soul Sense World

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Life Will

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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