W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous W. E. B. Du Bois quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American writer who passed away on 27 August, 1963.
“Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.”
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
“An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
“Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
“Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.”
“One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.”
“To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.”
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