#Quote
More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Men must not only know, they must act.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
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?
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.
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.
