The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.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
The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world.W.E.B. Du Bois
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas.W.E.B. Du Bois
America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.W.E.B. Du Bois
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.W.E.B. Du Bois
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
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
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.W.E.B. Du Bois
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.W.E.B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.W.E.B. Du Bois
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.W.E.B. Du Bois