More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
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.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
