W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.
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It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
