Education is built on the belief that people can be more. In the words of the 20th-century American sociologist and writer W.E.B. DuBois, an important anti-racist leader and figure in the development of African American education, "what people are depends on the way they have been educated, the way … their possibilities have been developed and drawn out." Du Bois's speeches and writings on the education of Black students were part of his larger concern about Black children's well-being and the uplifting of Black communities.