Quotes by : W.E.B. Du Bois

Even to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral....

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I....

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,....

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder....

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

What in the name of reason does this nation expect of a people, poorly trained and hard pressed in severe....

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

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

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