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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

“The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois