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"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."
"The power to investigate is a great public trust."
Explore more quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
"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."
"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."
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
"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."
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