Saturday, February 06, 2010

W. E. B.Du Bois Quotes:

* Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

* The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame

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

* I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

* There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

* The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

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