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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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.
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.
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
Men must not only know, they must act.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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.
