W. E. B. Du Bois Race Quotations

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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

Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.

Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at the shrine of the established social order and of the economic development into which I was born.

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.

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future will, in all reasonable possibility, be what colored men make of it.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.