“I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.”

—  W.E.B. Du Bois

Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. xi

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American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868–1963

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