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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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.
