The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du BoisI am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.
W. E. B. Du BoisThe future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
W. E. B. Du BoisCannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?
W. E. B. Du BoisThere 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 Bois