DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #18

"Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.  It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.  It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow.  Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #17

"It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #16

"The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #15

"The plight of the white working class throughout the world today is directly traceable to Negro slavery in America, on which modern commerce and industry was founded, and which persisted to threaten free labor…. The resulting color caste founded and retained by capitalism was adopted…and approved by white labor."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #14

"Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked - who is good? Not that men are ignorant - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #13

"The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #12

"The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defence,--else what shall save us from a second slavery?" Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #11

"It was thus the black worker, as founding stone of a new economic system in the nineteenth century and for the modern world, who brought civil war in America. He was its underlying cause, in spite of every effort to base the strife upon union and national power.
 
That dark and vast sea of human labor in China and India, the South Seas and all Africa; in the West Indies and Central America and in the United States—that great majority of mankind, on whose bent and broken backs rest today the founding stones of modern industry—shares a common destiny." Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #10

“To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.”Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #9

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

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #8

"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #7

"The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #6

"There can be little doubt but that in the fourteenth century the level of culture in black Africa south of the Sudan was equal to that of Europe and was so recognized."

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DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #5

"The race that produced the ugly features of a Darwin or a Winston Churchill was always "beautiful," while a Toussaint and a Menelik were ugly because they were black."

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DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #4

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

With that said, buy this!:  Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #3

"I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done."Share

DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY #2

For a friend

"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."
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DU BOIS QUOTE OF THE DAY

"We continually set before us the successful rich man as more typical of what America means than the student or the philanthropist or the unselfish man of small income and simple tastes."

Shall we say, "timely?"  I think so. Share