More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Men must not only know, they must act.
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.
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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?
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
The 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.
