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I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
Human nature is not simple and any classification that roughly divides men into good and bad, superior and inferior, slave and free, is and must be ludicrously untrue and universally dangerous as a permanent exhaustive classification.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
I believe in God who made of one blood all races that dwell on earth. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)