Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through… — 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
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young… — 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
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these… — 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
