Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois
"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor—all men know something of poverty."
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."