There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. — 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
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — 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
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
