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
It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. — 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
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
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter… — 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
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency… — 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… — 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
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform… — 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
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black… — 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
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
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
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
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
When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes… — 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
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
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
