Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois
"The assumption that a people taken at random from all ranks and conditions of three continents of Africa would readily yield to the control of Europeans, is certainly optimistic."
More from 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."