More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
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.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
