More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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.
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.
