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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
