More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
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.
Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work is heavy and the toil wearisome; lift up our hearts, O God, to the things worthwhile-sunshine and night, the dripping rain, the song of the birds, books and music, and the voices of our friends. Lift up our hearts to these this night and grant us Thy peace. Amen.
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.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
