What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa? W. E. B. Du Bois More Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois More Quotes From W. E. B. Du Bois America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons. W. E. B. Du Bois opportunity america son The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men. W. E. B. Du Bois atheism intelligent men The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry. W. E. B. Du Bois christian character years Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. W. E. B. Du Bois vigor rude america The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. W. E. B. Du Bois disappointment children people In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents. W. E. B. Du Bois children world thinking The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination. W. E. B. Du Bois drawing lines color 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 girl real boys I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right. W. E. B. Du Bois telling-the-truth evil world We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. W. E. B. Du Bois oasis simple men It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty. W. E. B. Du Bois strong beautiful mean How shall Integrity face Oppression? W. E. B. Du Bois oppression faces integrity There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for. W. E. B. Du Bois crush real ideas We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves. W. E. B. Du Bois sacrifice teaching self It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force. W. E. B. Du Bois giving men order All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda. W. E. B. Du Bois propaganda care art 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 carpenter objects men To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. W. E. B. Du Bois real answers doe Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet. W. E. B. Du Bois gunpowder different world The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer. W. E. B. Du Bois dark justice long
