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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.
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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
