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

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 system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. 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

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.

— 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

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

— 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

Education is the development of power and ideal.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

— W. E. B. Du Bois