Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain… — 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
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
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
