A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share
