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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
One 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.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
Men must not only know, they must act.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
In 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.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
