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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
Men must not only know, they must act.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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 main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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 no force equal to a woman determined to rise
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
