W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963

Topics

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The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there.

Jim Dine

FaithMatterEmotionOnlyStillHow

Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

Jessica Stockholder

FocusAttentionEdgeFocusedChanges

Donald Trump is either going to resign, he's going to be removed from office by impeachment, or I'm going to beat him in 2020. But one way or the other, he's not going to serve a second term.

Michael Avenatti

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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

John Ruskin

WorthYouChoosePayThing

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

John Shelby Spong

HistoryRealityExplainedDevelop

It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed.

Simon Greenleaf

GodAccountabilityRightHimSense

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

Roland Allen

MenSpiritualIntellectualNeedWhom

Anytime you do something different, a lot of attention gets put on it.

Roy Halladay

AttentionYouSomethingDifferent

Right now I like baseball, hockey and tennis players. And horseback riders.

Martina Hingis

BaseballHockeyNowTennisRight

We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Mona Simpson

CommunityPoliticsLookingBetter

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back.

Christo

BackPlaceNeverGarbageWorkers

When I see people sad, I'm sad.

Anne-Marie

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