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
Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — 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
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a… — 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
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
