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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
Men must not only know, they must act.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
