To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOISTo stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
W. E. B. DU BOISNo universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
W. E. B. DU BOISWhiteness is ownership of the earth.
W. E. B. DU BOISThere is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. DU BOISHerein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W. E. B. DU BOISBelieve in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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 BOISStrive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
W. E. B. DU BOISWe must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
W. E. B. DU BOISLife has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
W. E. B. DU BOISIt is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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 BOISIt is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.
W. E. B. DU BOISRace prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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