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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
