W. E. B. Du Bois

About

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( doo-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.

from Wikipedia

W. E. B. Du Bois is sometimes cited as:

W.E.B. Du Bois

Quotes from W. E. B. Du Bois

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

—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk

More about this quote

Tags:

Permalink for this quote

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

—W. E. B. Du Bois

More about this quote

Tags:

politics ignorance knowledge USA

Permalink for this quote

And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.

—W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk

More about this quote

Tags:

success vision

Permalink for this quote

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

—W. E. B. Du Bois

More about this quote

Permalink for this quote

Books

W. E. B. Du Bois has the following books quoted on Quodid:

The Souls of Black Folk