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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
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.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
