Quotes by : W. E. B. Du Bois

A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter....

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice....

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated....

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds....

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;....

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and....

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger....

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men.....

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham....

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad....