Quotes from the book The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships

—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk

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And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.

—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk

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About W. E. B. Du Bois

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( doo-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

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