More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
Men must not only know, they must act.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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.
