W.E.B. Du Bois

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

"Of all the things that drive men to Alice in Wonderland type of action, the worst is female beauty."

"I believe it is the duty of the Negro, as the greater part of the race is black."

"The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life."

"One ever feels his twoness in this American world."

"The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men."

"I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not."

"Education and work are the levers to uplift a people."

"The cost of living does not decrease as we progress, but the cost of living increases."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, we feel all the pulls of humanity."

"Belief in human unity."

"The worker must work for the glory of his handicraft or ha becomes a slave."

"A system cannot fail the people to whom it was never meant to succeed."

"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season."

"The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil."

"Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black."

"I believe in the Negro Race; in the flush of my manhood I believe in it utterly."

"The great tradition of public service and self-sacrifice for one's country knows no color line."

"Knowledge is power."

"The true college will ever have one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the world."

"I want to know: has the day of the Victorians gone forever?"

"Training in human nature is the object of education."

"The Negro has always been a sort of seventh son, born with a veil and gifted with second-sight in this American world."

"A man's burden is not the gifts he possesses, but the use to which he is to put them."

"We of the darker races must come together."

"How strange a thing is prejudice."

"The slave went free; stood a moment in the sun; then moved back again into slavery."

"I am ashamed of nothing."

"Believe in life! You will be beaten but not broken."

"The most powerful human being is he who stands alone."