Quotes by : W.E.B. Du Bois

How shall man measure Progress there where the dark-faced Josie lies? How many heartfuls of sorrow s....

In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into....

I insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the wrongs....

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition,....

At best, the natural good-nature is edged with complaint or has changed into sullenness and gloom. And....

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy....

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious....

The degree of ignorance cannot easily be expressed. We may say, for instance, that nearly two-thirds....

What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I don’t know,—what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered....