W E B Du Bois Quotes

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
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.
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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