“Education must not simply teach work - it much teach life” — W.E.B. Du Bois Education Copy Share Image
“In its place stood Progress; and Progress, I understand, is necessarily ugly.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Progress Copy Share Image
“perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Racism Copy Share Image
“High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Literary Copy Share Image
“And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is… — W.E.B. Du Bois Dreams Copy Share Image
“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Crime Copy Share Image
“until I had wandered beyond railways, beyond stage lines, to a land of "varmints" and rattlesnakes, where the coming of a stranger… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“John," she said, "does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?" He paused and smiled. "I am… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Banking Copy Share Image
“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Misery Copy Share Image
“So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable. Men began to… — W.E.B. Du Bois Politics Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas , where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly… — W.E.B. Du Bois Cup of tea Copy Share Image
“The worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the same rate, not in… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature… — W.E.B. Du Bois Freedom Copy Share Image
“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all… — W.E.B. Du Bois African american Copy Share Image
“You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,-who who in the swift whifl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvelous vision,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Black boy Copy Share Image
“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults… — W.E.B. Du Bois Happy childhood Copy Share Image
“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois African american Copy Share Image
“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where… — W.E.B. Du Bois Promised land Copy Share Image
“They do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come in a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write.… — W.E.B. Du Bois America 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
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Atheist Copy Share Image
“Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present… — W.E.B. Du Bois Childhood Copy Share Image
“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of… — W.E.B. Du Bois African americans Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Dark Copy Share Image
“Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors;… — W.E.B. Du Bois Black youth Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton… — W.E.B. Du Bois Depression Copy Share Image
“I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Community Copy Share Image
“I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake… — W.E.B. Du Bois Books Copy Share Image
“Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just… — W.E.B. Du Bois Books Copy Share Image
“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Racism Copy Share Image
