The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
W. E. B. DU BOISIn 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
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 BOISI insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. DU BOISEither America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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 music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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 BOISBetween 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 BOISOne 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 BOISThere can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W. E. B. DU BOISDisfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
W. E. B. DU BOISRace prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
W. E. B. DU BOIS