All W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
- The cause of war is preparation for war. Cause
- I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Funny
- The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in… Africa
- America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons. All
- The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class… Accuse
- Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life… Absorb
- I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote,… All
- I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. Believe
- This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization… Absolute
- Would America have been America without her Negro people? America
- Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the… America
- A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself Behind
- It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising… Assuming
- Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is… All
- The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is… Bores
- How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife… Ago
- The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may… All
- The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent… Any
- Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller… Affair
- Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. First Step
- One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not… African American
- Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done. Accepted
- It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and… American
- Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. Disappointment
- Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression.… Absolutely