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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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.
One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
