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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities. W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”. Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
- Social Justice
W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at...
- Racism
W. E. B. Du Bois (2007). “The Negro”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc....
- Diversity
Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.66, Courier...
- There is in This World No Such Force as The
There is in this world no such force as the force of a...
- Social Justice
- “Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” ― W.E.B. DuBois.
- “Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois.
- “The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois.
- “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.” ― W.E.B. DuBois.
Watch on. In November 2020, friends of the W. E. B. Du Bois Center shared a series of quotes by Du Bois that resonate in our own time. The quotes below were chosen by the 2019 cohort of Du Bois Center graduate and post-doctoral fellows.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- 1903
- “Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth?
- “One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
- “The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
- “After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
W. E. B. Du Bois Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men?
Du Bois understands that freedom is only possible when his people can escape their mental and emotional prison, and he believes that advanced education is the only way to do so. The Suffering of Black Americans
Apr 3, 2014 · W.E.B. Du Bois was an influential African American rights activist during the early 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.' Updated: Jan 7, 2021
