More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Men must not only know, they must act.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
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.
