It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will… — 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
Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about… — 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
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — 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
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime. — 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
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
