• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Related Topics

EarthWhite

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

• 

  A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  BillCivilizationManPriceRightWork
• 

  The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  ChildrenDeathDisappointmentHappinessHideMusicPeopleSufferingTrueWayWorld
• 

  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 in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  BelieveBlackBrotherDevelopmentMenMyselfOpportunityPossibleSoulTime
• 

  One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  BelieveDeathGreatnessHumanLifeLivePossibleProgressSimplicityTime
• 

  To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  FireMindsetPlayTrainingWeaknessWild
• 

  We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  AchievementOppressionSecureSoulWhiteYourself
• 

  The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  DemocracyExperienceGovernmentIntelligenceLearningPeopleRightTheoryWilling
• 

  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 sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  ArtColorDanceFlameSimplicitySunsetWorkWorld
• 

  The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  BetterChangeDeathHurtKillPeopleTime
• 

  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 Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  AppearanceDarknessLightPeopleProblemRaceSea
• 

  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 rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  ChildrenDifficultFeelingFrameRight
• 

  Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  AmbitionJoyJusticePeopleRightTrainingWorld
• 

  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 his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  AppearanceBeautifulMenThinkingVisionWomanWorld
• 

  One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  BelieveDeathGreatnessHumanLifeLivePossibleProgressSimplicityTime
• 

  But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  DemandDreamExpressionFreedomHumanSoulSpirit
• 

  There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

  W. E. B. DU BOIS
  DareEarthOneself