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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
