Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. W. E. B. Du Bois More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois More Quotes From W. E. B. Du Bois Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours? W. E. B. Du Bois be-strong face black men School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois black soul men life If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? W. E. B. Du Bois teachers black white people I was born free. W. E. B. Du Bois i-was-born free born
