More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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.
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
Men must not only know, they must act.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
