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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The cause of war is preparation for war.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.
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.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.
