"I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love."
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W. E. B. Du Bois was a pioneering African American intellectual, sociologist, and civil rights activist born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. A graduate of Fisk University, Harvard University, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. He co-founded the NAACP and edited its influential magazine, *The Crisis*. His seminal work, *The Souls of Black Folk*, called for political and social equality, leaving a lasting legacy that continues to inspire movements for justice and equality.
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"Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life."
W. E. B. Du Bois"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
W. E. B. Du Bois"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
W. E. B. Du Bois"From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation."
W. E. B. Du Bois"Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense."
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"All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda."
W. E. B. Du Bois"I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength."
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