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Du Bois sighed theatrically. "It's as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins. — Gavin G. Smith

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself — W.E.B. Du Bois

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened. — William Pene Du Bois

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise — W.E.B. Du Bois

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! — W.E.B. Du Bois

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Would America have been America without her Negro people? — W.E.B. Du Bois

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family. — Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care. — William Pene Du Bois

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.' — Andre Holland

Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction. — W.E.B. Du Bois

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. — W.E.B. Du Bois

In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder. — W.E.B. Du Bois

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Whiteness is ownership of the earth. — W.E.B. Du Bois

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Liberty trains for liberty. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. — W.E.B. Du Bois

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! — W.E.B. Du Bois

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. — W.E.B. Du Bois

But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing - a childless mother. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

With growing exploitation, until they fought slavery to save democracy and then lost democracy in a new and vaster slavery. — W.E.B. Du Bois

As a race, the Negroes are not lazy. — W.E.B. Du Bois

He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I was born free. — W.E.B. Du Bois

It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W.E.B. Du Bois

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Education is the development of power and ideal. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I am a Bolshevik. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Only that saner selfishness, which Education teaches men, can find the rights of all in the whirl of work. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Rich and bitter depth of their experience, the — W.E.B. Du Bois

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Men must not only know, they must act. — W.E.B. Du Bois

My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. — W.E.B. Du Bois

its police system was arranged to deal with blacks alone, and tacitly assumed that every white man was ipso facto a member of that police. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. — W.E.B. Du Bois

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for? — W.E.B. Du Bois

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect — W.E.B. Du Bois

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera. — W.E.B. Du Bois

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W.E.B. Du Bois

It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind. — William Pene Du Bois

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Romance this moment, this hour, this day. String moments together like pearls on a rope. — Rachelle Du Bois

But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Ignorance is a cure for nothing. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We have come to a generation which seeks advance without ideals - discovery without stars. — W.E.B. Du Bois

A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man, — Daphne Du Bois

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame. — W.E.B. Du Bois

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Then, as the storm burst round him, he
rose slowly to his feet and turned his closed eyes toward the Sea.
And the world whistled in his ears. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The price of culture is a Lie. — W.E.B. Du Bois

All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me. — W.E.B. Du Bois

[C] an any sane man imagine that they will lightly lay aside their yearning and contentedly become he were of wood and drawers of water? — 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. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong. — W.E.B. Du Bois