Lazy Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois Download Open image “As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.” — W. E. B. Du Bois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lazy Race Racism
If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
Negroes aren't seeking anything which is not good for the nation as well as ourselves. In order for America to be 100 percent strong… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity. — Major Taylor Copy Share Image
People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“I can say with confidence that many black males are both lazy and irresponsible. This view isn't popular with problem profiteers who” — Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position and made him eat… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement. — Natasha Tsakos Copy Share Image
I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Some say work smarter, not harder, but the wisest are both. Whether you're more of a hard worker or a smart worker, if you're… — Colby Tatem Copy Share Image
Anyone can practice. Young man can practice. Old man can practice. Very old man can practice. Man who is sick, he can practice. Man… — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
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