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

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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. - W. E. B. Du Bois

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. - W. E. B. Du Bois

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. - W. E. B. Du Bois

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? - W. E. B. Du Bois

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W. E. B. Du Bois

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. - W. E. B. Du Bois

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. - W. E. B. Du Bois

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. - W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. - W. E. B. Du Bois

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. - W. E. B. Du Bois

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. - W. E. B. Du Bois

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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. - W. E. B. Du Bois

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. - W. E. B. Du Bois

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. - W. E. B. Du Bois