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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance, America, United States

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Lying, Ignorance, Men
Preface to reprint of The Souls of Black Folk (1969).

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance, Cures

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Honesty, Ignorance, Knowledge
W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Disappointment, Ignorance, Simple
W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.30, Oxford University Press

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance, Men, Intelligent
Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' speech, www.scotsman.com. October 20, 1946.

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