W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes
At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. A...
Show MoreThe worlds within and without the Veil of Color are changing, and changing rapidly, but not at the s...
Show MoreThe nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to...
Show MoreAnd the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. A...
Show MoreWhat rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam...
Show MoreWhat in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in s...
Show MoreThe hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of ...
Show MoreToday even the attitude of the Southern whites toward the blacks is not, as so many assume, in all c...
Show MoreThey do not expect that the free right to vote, to enjoy civic rights, and to be educated, will come...
Show MoreEven to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the mo...
Show MoreOne ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...
Show MoreIt was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...
Show MoreOne reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and...
Show More[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...
Show MoreThe hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of ...
Show MoreHow shall man measure Progress there where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow s...
Show MoreThe function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...
Show MoreWe are training not isolated men but a living group of men, - nay, a group within a group. And the f...
Show MoreAnd yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities o...
Show MoreWhat do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpo...
Show MoreEducation must not simply teach work - it much teach life
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
Show MoreEducation is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which mo...
Show MoreThe history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
Show MoreI refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly ref...
Show MoreAmong this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...
Show MoreHerein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not ...
Show MoreAmerica is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...
Show MoreIt is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social c...
Show MoreDeception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many year...
Show MoreNot even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freed...
Show MoreWhen now we turn and look five miles above, there on the edge of town are five houses of prostitutes...
Show MoreThose whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," s...
Show MoreThey approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, inst...
Show MoreThe degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds...
Show MoreHonest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of write...
Show MoreIn a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into...
Show MoreI insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the w...
Show MoreEastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...
Show MoreThere is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broa...
Show MoreFrom the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and ...
Show MoreOne ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin...
Show MoreEducation must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. ...
Show MoreFor fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...
Show MoreI believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...
Show MoreEducation and work are the levers to uplift a people.
From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of al...
Show MoreRule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...
Show MoreI believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...
Show MoreA system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere ...
Show MoreAn American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in o...
Show MoreSchool houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men....
Show MoreI believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, ...
Show MoreNo universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t...
Show MoreHere is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity an...
Show MoreThus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter sh...
Show MoreEvery argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, a...
Show MoreA little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...
Show MoreThere was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...
Show MoreIn the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab...
Show MoreThe Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of educatio...
Show MoreLike Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...
Show MoreBut what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...
Show MoreEducation is the development of power and ideal.
