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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
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.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
