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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Tags: men, death, best, education

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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.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Tags: war, peace, death, strength
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Tags: people, work, education
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Tags: things, your, soul, yourself
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Tags: human, hard, real, life
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Tags: reading, will, words, you
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