Quotes

"The colored world therefore, must be seen as existing not simply for itself, but as a group whose insistent cry may yet become the warning which awakens the world to its truer self and its wider destiny." -W.E.B. Du Bois

//How America Lives: Meet the Hinksons of Philadelphia, Pa.,// Ladies' Home Journal, August, 1942

"A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again". - 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

"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". - W. E. B. Du Bois

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life". - W. E. B. 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

"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

"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". - W. E. B. Du Bois

"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".- W. E. B. Du Bois