Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
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.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
– W. E. B. Du Bois
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
– W. E. B. Du Bois