Du Bois Quotes 1
We hope you will find these words of W.E.B. Dubois as inspiring as we do:
“Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may inquire. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.”
“You are not and yet you are: your thoughts, your deeds, above all your dreams still live.”
“We say easily, for instance, ‘The ignorant ought not to vote.’ We would say, ‘No civilized state should have citizens too ignorant to participate in government,’ and this statement is but a step to the fact: that no state is civilized which has citizens too ignorant to help rule it.”
“The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery.”
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
(http://duboiscenter.library.umass.edu/du-bois-quotes/)
