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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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.
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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.
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
