The 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 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 BOISWhiteness is ownership of the earth.
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 BOISChildren learn more from what you are than what you teach.
W. E. B. DU BOISWe shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
W. E. B. DU BOISBut we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
W. E. B. DU BOISThere is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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 emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
W. E. B. DU BOISThere is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. DU BOISA man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
W. E. B. DU BOISTo stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOISMost 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 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 BOISLiberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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