More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
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.
