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 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 BOISIt is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.
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 BOISEducation must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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 BOISMost men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
W. E. B. DU BOISLife has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
W. E. B. DU BOISLiberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
W. E. B. DU BOISViolence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
W. E. B. DU BOISStrive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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 BOISThe world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
W. E. B. DU BOISOne thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
W. E. B. DU BOISI 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 BOISI insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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