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Social Justice Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
- One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose…
- The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
- 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…
- Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, -…
- To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
More Social Justice Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. — Joan Baez
- We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. — Pearl Bailey
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. — Abigail Adams
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James A. Baldwin
- Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law. — James A. Baldwin
- Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams