We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
W. E. B. DU BOISWe must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
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 BOISI am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe cause of war is preparation for war.
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 BOISRace prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
W. E. B. DU BOISNow is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
W. E. B. DU BOISThere is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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 BOISEither America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. DU BOISWhen you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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 BOISDisfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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 BOISIt is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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