W. E. B. Du Bois
A prominent sociologist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, known for his concept of 'double consciousness' and studies of race in America.
Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
I refuse to let my race be defined by others.
The music of Negro life is indeed a bewitching thing.
Liberty trains for liberty.
The American Negro Academy is an organization of American Negroes.
We claim for ourselves every single right that belongs to a freeborn American.
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx.
I am a citizen of the world.
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor.
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings.
The facing of so vast a prejudice could not but bring the inevitable self-questioning.
Work and save for the future.
The ideals of the American people are the noblest in the world.
I have but one life to live.
The Negro needs neither red cap nor platform to make his case clear.
Beauty is the watchword of the Negro Renaissance.
In all sorrow, hope is the dry land of the soul.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge.
Oppression costs the oppressor too much.