W. E. B. Du Bois
“The object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.”
“The cause of war is preparation for war.”
“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
“Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.”
“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
“Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
“Education must not simply teach work—it must teach life.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.”