W. E. B. Du Bois

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

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

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Men must not only know, they must act.

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?