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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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.
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.
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 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.
