So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to… — 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… — 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 future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The equality in political, industrial and social life which modern men must have in order to live, is not to be confounded… — 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
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite… — 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
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! — 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
Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the… — 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
