Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Deception is the natural defense of the weak against the strong.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Everybody is in favor of justice so long as it costs them no effort.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,- all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,- who is good? not that men are ignorant,- what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
--W.E.B. DuBois
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
--W.E.B. DuBois
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
--W.E.B. DuBois
No state can be strong which excludes from its expressed wisdom, the knowledge possessed by mothers, wives and daughters.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Only the soul that suffers knows its suffering. Only the one who needs knows what need means.
--W.E.B. DuBois
Pessimism is cowardice.
--W.E.B. DuBois
The cause of war is preparation for war.
--W.E.B. DuBois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
--W.E.B. DuBois
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.
--W.E.B. DuBois
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. DuBois
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. DuBois
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
--W.E.B. DuBois
There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
--W.E.B. DuBois
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
--W.E.B. DuBois
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. DuBois
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.
--W.E.B. DuBois
We can afford the Truth.
--W.E.B. DuBois
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?
--W.E.B. DuBois
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