Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W. E. B. DU BOISNothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
W. E. B. DU BOISHonest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
W. E. B. DU BOISThere is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W. E. B. DU BOISBut 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 BOISWhether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down… Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.
W. E. B. DU BOISEducation must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. DU BOISA 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 BOISI most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. DU BOISEducation is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
W. E. B. DU BOISUnfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
W. E. B. DU BOISMost men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
W. E. B. DU BOISLiberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
W. E. B. DU BOISAll womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
W. E. B. DU BOISAs Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
W. E. B. DU BOIS