Men Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

43 Men quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois discusses what it means to be a man in society. He links education to the making of true men, not just workers. He also points out how men have been used to uphold or challenge systems like slavery and governance.

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Men must not only know, they must act.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything…

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Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.

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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter…

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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge…

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The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should…

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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom…

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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races…

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No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is…

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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of…

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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look,…

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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which…

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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency…

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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed…

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of…

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This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he…

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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes…

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The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people…

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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the…

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It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

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The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of…

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to…

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I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and…

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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in…

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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and…

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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all…

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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the…

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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought…

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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for…

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It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition…

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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black…

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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over.…

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This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will…

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Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at…

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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…

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code…

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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen…

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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

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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive…

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

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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…

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