More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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.
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.
