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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Men must not only know, they must act.
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.
