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
W. E. B. DU BOIS
W. E. B. Du Bois on believe
W. E. B. Du Bois94 quotes“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.”
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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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 BoisW. E. B. Du Bois As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Would America have been America without her Negro people?
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois 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 BoisW. 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.
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