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More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.
