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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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.
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 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.
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.
Men must not only know, they must act.
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?
