There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
W. E. B. Du BoisHalf the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.
W. E. B. Du BoisEducation is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du BoisThe problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
W. E. B. Du Bois