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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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.
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.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
Men must not only know, they must act.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
