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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
Men must not only know, they must act.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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.
