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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
