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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
— W. E. B. Du Bois
Sociologist and civil rights activist
The Talented Tenth, published as the second chapter of The Negro Problem, a collection of articles by African Americans (New York: James Pott and Company, 1903)

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W. E. B. Du Bois
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