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More Quotes by 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.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
