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W. E. B. Du Bois on Knowledge

1868–1963 United States

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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

Niagara Movement Speech (1905)

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

The Negro (1915)

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