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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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.
