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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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.
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.
