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 BoisThere is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
W. E. B. Du BoisStrive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
W. E. B. Du BoisToday I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.
W. E. B. Du Bois