More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
