Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

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

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

W. E. B. Du Bois

I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

W. E. B. Du Bois

A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

W. E. B. Du Bois