To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

- W. E. B. Du Bois

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to…

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

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

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

- W. E. B. Du Bois