W.E.B. Du Bois quote: "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?"

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

My 'morals' were sound, even a bit puritanic, but when a hidebound old deacon inveighed against danc...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'�...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W.E.B. DU BOIS

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Among this people there is no leisure class. We often forget that in the United States over half the...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; no...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled striv...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-cons...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

I sit with

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and ener...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. ...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the p...
W.E.B. DU BOIS

We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?
SHIRLEY GRAHAM DU BOIS

Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
WILLIAM PèNE DU BOIS

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you rea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education is the development of power and ideal.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. DU BOIS

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which mo...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restrict...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Irela...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of educatio...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...
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 ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or rec...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I am a Bolshevik.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Ab...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they ...
WILLIAM E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critiq...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broa...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men....
W. E. B. DU BOIS

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in o...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are do...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word '...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of al...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast,...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's sel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of the...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamel...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

All men cannot go to college but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture amo...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
W. E. B. DU BOIS

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought ...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best w...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that br...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It d...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a ninetee...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, a...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. Th...
W. E. B. DU BOIS

The use of Microsoft's .NET also has Web-services implications within an organization because it pro...
ROB BOIS

It's a heady feeling. Museums around the world are buying [contemporary Chinese art], Chinese collec...
LUDOVIC BOIS

I wasn't surprised at all. In fact I had bet money that this auction would see a contemporary Chines...
LUDOVIC BOIS

Eventually the 'Chinese Offspring' will go because it is an important work, even if it is difficult ...
LUDOVIC BOIS

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupi...
DU MU

My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains.
DU FU

The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscr...
DU FU

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.
DU COEUR

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
DU FU

That shows that the current system is outdated. We must transform this system.
DU YING

Other than fruits, which we buy, we eat only what we grow and raise - rice and vegetables, and a pig...
DU CHONGAN

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
DU MU

Occupiers of 'bad' buildings are exposed to far worse dangers on the streets than in the buildings, ...
DU PLESSIS

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam...
DU FU

We also investigated the ice-mining location (for the festival) and found that there were no polluta...
DU YUXIN

Water quality has improved dramatically. Drinking water is very secure and even better than before.
DU YUXIN

I can guarantee that the ice and snow we have used for the festival is safe and clean.
DU YUXIN

The requisition of farmland at low prices is hurting farmers' interests, and the existence of this p...
DU YING

We have to recognize that there is a problem of taking farmers' land at a very low price.
DU YING

I am getting used to it day by day, but the football here is very physical. I need more time and I a...
DU WEI

The fundamentals are okay, but the market is not as resilient as before and sentiment could quickly ...
DU PLESSIS

Under current circumstances, it will be very easy for retailers to widen their margins, and many of ...
DU PLESSIS

We want to make a special gesture towards those subscribers and advertisers who joined us in this ex...
DU PLESSIS

That's why, from time to time, there are people acting.
DU PLESSIS

It's a good thing to rotate the directors.
DU PLESSIS

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.
DU FU

This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land.
DU FU

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
DU FU

We spend only 30,000 yuan to build our houses, but their homes cost 300,000 yuan.
DU CHONGAN

My dad couldn't even afford a bicycle, now I have a motorcycle. When my son gets to be my age, he'll...
DU CHONGAN

My path is full of petals–I have swept it for no others.
My thatch gate has been closed–but...
DU FU

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.
DU FU

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

I think I've achieved everything I wanted to.
NATALIE DU TOIT

Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on wi...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I'm probably the most negative person around.
NATALIE DU TOIT

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in ...
NATALIE DU TOIT

By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
NATALIE DU TOIT

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.
NATALIE DU TOIT

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
NATALIE DU TOIT

It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally hav...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'
NATALIE DU TOIT

I hate seaweed.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I never thought of being disadvantaged.
NATALIE DU TOIT

The situation in disability sport is growing, and girls like Ellie Cole are doing wonders.
NATALIE DU TOIT

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try...
NATALIE DU TOIT

My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her...
NATALIE DU TOIT

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.
NATALIE DU TOIT

My message is not just to disabled people, but to everyone: You have to work hard.
NATALIE DU TOIT

Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you...
NATALIE DU TOIT

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
NATALIE DU TOIT

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anyt...
NATALIE DU TOIT

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really g...
NATALIE DU TOIT

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really ...
NATALIE DU TOIT

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
NATALIE DU TOIT

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling...
PETE DU PONT

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the ...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, every...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
CHARLES DU BOS

No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any ...
HARRIET DU AUTERMONT

It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
CHARLES DU BOS

All autobiography is self-indulgent.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talki...
PETE DU PONT

I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser....
ANTON DU BEKE

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.
ANTON DU BEKE

It may sound cliched, but 'Strictly' is a real journey. I try to encourage my partner to sta...
ANTON DU BEKE

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ough...
PETE DU PONT

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our par...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

I'm obviously attuned to pick up mathematics whenever I can see it. But in Mozart there is a lot...
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated...
ANTON DU BEKE

It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misun...
ANTON DU BEKE

Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the ...
ANTON DU BEKE

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
ANTON DU BEKE

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps ...
PETE DU PONT

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about bei...
ANTON DU BEKE

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk i...
JACQUELINE DU PRE

I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes ri...
JACQUELINE DU PRE

The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

Now conquering Rome doth conquered Rome inter, And she the vanquished is, and vanquisher. To s...
JOACHIM DU BELLAY

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the a...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

The days of rejoicing are gone forever. [Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
JACQUES DU LORENS

The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dini...
ANTON DU BEKE

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - What Is Literature?
CHARLES DU BOS

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could bec...
CHARLES DU BOS

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and pander and conce...
GEORGE DU MAURIER

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

We're safe enough now,' he thought, 'we're snug and tight, like an air-raid shelter. We can hold out...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous ...
PETE DU PONT

Because we had no other relatives living in the U.K., me, my parents and my siblings continuously jo...
ANTON DU BEKE

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.
MARCUS DU SAUTOY

Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way...
PETE DU PONT

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?

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