I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men. W. E. B. Du Bois More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois More Quotes From W. E. B. Du Bois Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white. W. E. B. Du Bois voting black white The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. W. E. B. Du Bois government average people Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down... Education must not simply teach work - it must teach life. W. E. B. Du Bois you-like-it teaching teacher As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. W. E. B. Du Bois congress hearing voting 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 credit rights work The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog. W. E. B. Du Bois white-man opportunity men 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 black-history dark two Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease! W. E. B. Du Bois intelligent ignorance men The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree. W. E. B. Du Bois magic together world Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men. W. E. B. Du Bois men lying knowledge When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message?. . . The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty. . . . W. E. B. Du Bois vision doe men 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 wall education school A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. W. E. B. Du Bois classic writing book Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. W. E. B. Du Bois pioneers railroads effort Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground. W. E. B. Du Bois social-justice progress men The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world. W. E. B. Du Bois clothes skins determination The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people. W. E. B. Du Bois ignorance disappointment simple 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 reading science book Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. W. E. B. Du Bois liberty responsibility firsts Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization. W. E. B. Du Bois lynching civilization country
