"Ignorance is a cure for nothing. " W. E. B. Dubois

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." W.E.B. DuBois

"Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and must be reckoned with soberly. They cannot be laughed away, nor always

"Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge

"Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul." W.E.B. Du Bois

"Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?" W.E.B. Du Bois

"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

"The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death

"The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine

"Patience, Humility, Manners, and Taste, common schools and kindergartens, industrial and technical schools, literature and tolerance,—all these spring from knowledge and culture, the children of

"The equality in political, industrial and social life which modern men must have in order to live, is not to be confounded with sameness. On the contrary, in our case, it is rather insistence upon

"Patience, Humility, Manners, and Taste, common schools and kindergartens, industrial and technical schools, literature and tolerance,—all these spring from knowledge and culture, the children of

"no approximately correct history of civilization can ever be written which does not throw out in bold relief, as one of the great landmarks of political and social progress, the organization and

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." W.E.B. DuBois

"The equality in political, industrial and social life which modern men must have in order to live, is not to be confounded with sameness. On the contrary, in our case, it is rather insistence upon

"To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word." W.E.B. Du Bois

"I refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly

"Only that saner selfishness, which Education teaches men, can find the rights of all in the whirl of work." W. E.B. Du Bois

"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self." W.E.B. Du Bois

"perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts." W.E.B. Du Bois