The 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 BoisI most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. Du BoisI believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
W. E. B. Du BoisI refused to teach Sunday school. When Archdeacon Henry Phillips, my last rector, died, I flatly refused again to join any church or sign any church creed. From my 30th year on I have increasingly regarded the church as an institution which defended such evils as slavery, color caste, exploitation of labor and war.
W. E. B. Du Bois