Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
W. E. B. DU BOISLiberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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 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 in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W. E. B. DU BOISEducation must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe cause of war is preparation for war.
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 BOISThere is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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 BOISTo be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. DU BOISTo stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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 BOISStrive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
W. E. B. DU BOISI 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 BOISWe cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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