Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. DU BOISEither America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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 BOISNo universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
W. E. B. DU BOISIgnorance is a cure for nothing.
W. E. B. DU BOISRace prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
W. E. B. DU BOISLord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
W. E. B. DU BOISWhen you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. DU BOISMr. 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 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 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 BOISThe 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 BOISThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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 BOISWhen 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 BOISMost men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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.
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