One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always hum…

W. E. B. Du Bois
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One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long. ✨ Last message (written 26 June, 1957) read at his funeral, 1963, in Journal of Negro History Apr. 1964
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