30 ordspråk av W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois

W. E. B. Du Bois föddes den 23 februari 1868 och dog den 27 augustus 1963
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Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental. . . . The freedom to learn . . . has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn . . .

One ever feels his twoness-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.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

The future woman must have a life, work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope -- a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm confidence. Sometimes it is faith in life, sometimes a faith in death, sometimes assurance of boundless justice in some fair world beyond. But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

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

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

Today we have climbed to heights where we would open at least the outer courts of knowledge to all, display its treasures to many, and select the few to whom its mystery of Truth is revealed.

When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? . . . The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty. . . .

Your country? How came it to be yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song -- soft, stirring melody in an ill-harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, a gift of the Spirit.

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