Best W. E. B. Du Bois Quotations
- Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if… Bullets
- We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. Achieved
- I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride… Bastardy
- If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera. Able
- Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human. Both
- Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all reasonable possibility, be… All
- We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. Becomes
- Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid… All
- Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. Black
- I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong. All
- There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well… Any
- Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds… Always Paid
- The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this… Ability
- Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, -… Age
- The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… African American
- There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. Coward
- For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. All
- Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. Children
- I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers. All
- The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else… Ask
- ...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,… Any
- Ignorance is a cure for nothing. Cure
- Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. America
- What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand… Care
- But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of… Art
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