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W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes: The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?
         

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?


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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.



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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.



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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.



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