More from W. E. B. Du Bois
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Most 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 BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Men must not only know, they must act.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois All 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 BoisW. E. B. Du Bois No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The 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 BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Herein 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 BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The cause of war is preparation for war.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois
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