W. E. B. Du Bois Black 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.

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.

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

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.