284 Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

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.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

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.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.