W.E.B. Du Bois Quotes.

1. "Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."
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2. "Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
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3. "The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame."
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4. "Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States."
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5. "The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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6. "Ignorance is a cure for nothing."
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7. "I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers."
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8. "What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?"
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9. "How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily."
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10. "The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization."
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