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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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.
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.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.
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.
