“Education must not simply teach work - it much teach life” — W.E.B. Du Bois Education Copy Share Image
“In its place stood Progress; and Progress, I understand, is necessarily ugly.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Disturbed Copy Share Image
“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Feeling Copy Share Image
“All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Crying Copy Share Image
“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Racism Copy Share Image
“High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Literary Copy Share Image
“until I had wandered beyond railways, beyond stage lines, to a land of "varmints" and rattlesnakes, where the coming of a stranger… — W.E.B. Du Bois Wandered Copy Share Image
“John," she said, "does it make every one—unhappy when they study and learn lots of things?" He paused and smiled. "I am… — W.E.B. Du Bois Smiled Copy Share Image
“He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“A resistless feeling of depression falls slowly upon us, despite the gaudy sunshine and the green cotton-fields. This, then, is the Cotton… — W.E.B. Du Bois Depression Copy Share Image
“Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Community Copy Share Image
“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Misery Copy Share Image
“So flagrant became the political scandals that reputable men began to leave politics alone, and politics consequently became disreputable. Men began to… — W.E.B. Du Bois Politics Copy Share Image
“They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does… — W.E.B. Du Bois Hesitant Copy Share Image
“Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature… — W.E.B. Du Bois Freedom Copy Share Image
“The shades of the prison house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Crime Copy Share Image
“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all… — W.E.B. Du Bois African american Copy Share Image
“Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since… — W.E.B. Du Bois Criticism Copy Share Image
“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick… — W.E.B. Du Bois Education Copy Share Image
“Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the youth and adults… — W.E.B. Du Bois Happy childhood Copy Share Image
“It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the… — W.E.B. Du Bois African american Copy Share Image
“The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds of them cannot read or write.… — W.E.B. Du Bois America 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 Childish Copy Share Image
“ Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Common man Copy Share Image
“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind… — W.E.B. Du Bois Common decency Copy Share Image
“Now it happens that both master and man have just enough argument on their respective sides to make it difficult for them… — W.E.B. Du Bois Mistrust Copy Share Image
“When now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes,—two of blacks… — W.E.B. Du Bois Black boy Copy Share Image
“My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against dancing I rebelled. By the time… — W.E.B. Du Bois Atheist Copy Share Image
“Thus it is doubly difficult to write of this period calmly, so intense was the feeling, so mighty the human passions that… — W.E.B. Du Bois Dark Copy Share Image
“What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe economic competition,… — W.E.B. Du Bois Hopelessness Copy Share Image
“was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Racism Copy Share Image
“But, back of this, still broods silently the deep religious feeling of the real Negro heart, the stirring, unguided might of powerful… — W.E.B. Du Bois Life worth living Copy Share Image
“And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is… — W.E.B. Du Bois Dreams Copy Share Image
“the black folks say that only colored boys are sent to jail, and they not because they are guilty, but because the… — W.E.B. Du Bois Crime Copy Share Image
“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement… — W.E.B. Du Bois Banking Copy Share Image
“Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Racism Copy Share Image
“found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering.… — W.E.B. Du Bois Indifference Copy Share Image
“I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake… — W.E.B. Du Bois Books Copy Share Image
