W. E. B. Du Bois

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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.

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

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

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.

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.