All W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
- Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls… All
- All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda. All
- The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer. Dark
- When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is… Ask
- It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its… Adversity
- Out of the temptation of Hate, and burned by the fire of Despair, triumphant over Doubt, and steeled by Sacrifice against Humiliation, . . .… All
- No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, All
- A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect Cannot Fail
- As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. Congress
- If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. Among
- There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise Determined
- The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers… Black
- We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. Black
- Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is… African
- Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation… Art
- Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and… Both
- Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime. Accuse
- In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States… All
- Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of… All
- I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing… Alike
- Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world… America
- Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with… Actively
- The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such… Abu
- There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace. Accomplish
- It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. Force