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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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.
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.
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.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
