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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
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
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
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
Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
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
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
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
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
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
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
Only that saner selfishness, which Education teaches men, can find the rights of all in the whirl of work.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Rich and bitter depth of their experience, the
— 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
Men must not only know, they must act.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
senior officer presumed to be a better judge of
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
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
You can't fix stupid,
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
— W. E. B. Griffin
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
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
Then, as the storm burst round him, herose 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
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
The price of culture is a Lie.
— W.E.B. Du Bois
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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
