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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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.
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.
