More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
