W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

American - Writer | February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.

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

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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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

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I was born free.

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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section.

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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!

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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

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