Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

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

— W. E. B. Du Bois
Encouraging for Students Teaching

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

— W. E. B. Du Bois
Firsts

It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

— W. E. B. Du Bois
Real

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

— W. E. B. Du Bois
Real

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

— W. E. B. Du Bois
Real

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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?

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The cause of war is preparation for war.

— 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
Book Reading
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