“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, book The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. V: Of the Wings of Atalanta

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