A Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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Education Work Levers People Uplift

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W. E. B. Du Bois
American - Writer
February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Rainn Wilson

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

Frances Harper

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

Thabo Mbeki

When you feel good you uplift your life, and you uplift the world.

Rhonda Byrne

The more you choose to do things that uplift yourself and others the more your Spirit can shine, can heal you, can lead your life. What can you do today to uplift yourself? To uplift others?

Sonia Choquette

The Gregory Isaacs feel is universal, trying to uplift who I can uplift. I sing music on a worldwide basis. That is made to be accepted in thy sight.

Gregory Isaacs

Work is the greatest means of education. To train children to work, to work systematically, to love work, and to put their brains into work, may be called the end and aim of schools. In education, no work should be done for the sake of the thing done, but for the sake of the growing mind.

Francis Wayland Parker

The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.

Sharon Gannon

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

Rudolf Rocker

I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate.

Maya Angelou

My commitments are for Punjabi films - I want to work for the industry to uplift it.

Gurpreet Ghuggi

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

Carter G. Woodson

If you're going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

Patrick Pearse

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.