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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
