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

—W. E. B. Du Bois

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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, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed graduate work at Harvard University, where he...

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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

—W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

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