It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree. — 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
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly… — 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
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
I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer. — 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 shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and… — 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
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — 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
For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations… — 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
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
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us. — 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
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to 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
