Top 100 Bois's Quotes

#1. A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #834
#2. Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.

William Pene Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #5362
#3. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #43742
#4. In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #56158
#5. Rich and bitter depth of their experience, the

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #56607
#6. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #58066
#7. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #59340
#8. I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #66590
#9. In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #69078
#10. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #104538
#11. I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #109281
#12. Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #121575
#13. 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. Nevertheless, men strive to know.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #123154
#14. A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #129427
#15. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #132626
#16. From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #143642
#17. Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #144917
#18. And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough one-ness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #152578
#19. 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.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #155755
#20. And yet this does not touch the kernel of the problem. Human advancement is not a mere question of almsgiving, but rather of sympathy and cooperation among classes who would scorn charity.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #156063
#21. The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #159663
#22. The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense,
else what shall save us from a second slavery?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #163680
#23. It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #170144
#24. One ever feels his twoness,
an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strenth alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #181983
#25. I pray you, then, receive my little book in all charity, studying my words with me, forgiving mistake and foible for sake of the faith and passion that is in me, and seeking the grain of truth hidden there.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #184927
#26. It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #198264
#27. High in the tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than the Souls of White Folk.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #208169
#28. Would America have been America without her Negro people?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #220026
#29. 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.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #228992
#30. But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #234366
#31. The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #239077
#32. 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.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #245155
#33. I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #250907
#34. Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #252223
#35. All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #261220
#36. My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #264753
#37. He isn't bashful, but an asshole who'd sooner smash his glass because it was half full.

Gordon P. Bois

Bois's Quotes #268623
#38. For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #310171
#39. As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #316942
#40. There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #346557
#41. But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #358558
#42. It seems strange to me that mechanical progress always seems to leave the slower demands of elegance far behind.

William Pene Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #360980
#43. Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #367164
#44. [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #369134
#45. Scott calls Bois-Guilbert "an unprincipled voluptuary," which is hard to improve on.

Richard Armour

Bois's Quotes #374785
#46. Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing - a childless mother.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #383016
#47. Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #384867
#48. It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #390599
#49. I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #391154
#50. The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #399955
#51. Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #404199
#52. Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #410012
#53. The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation
of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and
black.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #412324
#54. Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #416703
#55. Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #417623
#56. War, murder, slavery, extermination, and debauchery, - this has again and again been the result of carrying civilization and the blessed gospel to the isles of the sea and the heathen without the law. Nor

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #426348
#57. I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #442293
#58. Du Bois sighed theatrically. "It's as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.

Gavin G. Smith

Bois's Quotes #443043
#59. But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #455593
#60. Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #470645
#61. The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #491047
#62. All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #495728
#63. Liberty trains for liberty.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #505419
#64. The stream of fugitives swelled to a flood, and anxious army officers kept inquiring: What must be done with slaves, arriving almost daily? Are we to find food and shelter for women and children?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #526178
#65. That the present social separation and acute race-sensitiveness must eventually yield to the influences of culture, as the South grows civilized, is clear.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #555790
#66. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #567481
#67. I was born free.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #589948
#68. A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #592636
#69. The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #611488
#70. Thus one can see in the Negro church to-day, reproduced in microcosm, all the great world from which the Negro is cut off by color-prejudice and social condition.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #618133
#71. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #632799
#72. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #640044
#73. And 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? Nay, but that men know so little of men. He

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #662488
#74. We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #663927
#75. Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #672054
#76. It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #692839
#77. Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.

Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

Bois's Quotes #716939
#78. At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And now and then it blazes forth in veiled but hot anger.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #718019
#79. Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #731597
#80. Denmark first responded to the denunciatory cries of the eighteenth century against slavery and the slave-trade. In 1792, by royal order, this traffic was prohibited in the Danish possessions after 1802.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #774298
#81. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #788847
#82. Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond's words, "a general feeling of disorder," which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient's powers of description.

Oliver Sacks

Bois's Quotes #789128
#83. obliteration of the Negro home. A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #804794
#84. The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #810113
#85. If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #810761
#86. The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #813156
#87. Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #839645
#88. Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #844539
#89. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #850274
#90. The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #853623
#91. ..this noticeable in the South, where theology
and religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and methods.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #866521
#92. If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, "the problem of the color line," then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification.

Naomi Murakawa

Bois's Quotes #868916
#93. The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #876286
#94. And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #883448
#95. A gentleman? How quaint. Not everything in a lady's life revolves around a man,

Daphne Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #1196037
#96. That's the peculiar thing about nature," explained Mr. F., "it guards it's rarest treasures with greatest care.

William Pene Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #1333297
#97. The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #1409911
#98. 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.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #1448450
#99. Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #1484082
#100. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

W.E.B. Du Bois

Bois's Quotes #1617247

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