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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.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
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.
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
