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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
