Ifs Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

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

As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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