More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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.
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.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
