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This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.
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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
