W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes on Freedom
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, philosopher, historian, and civil rights leader. This page collects quotes attributed to W. E. B. Du Bois on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to W. E. B. Du Bois:
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season.”
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“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
John Brown : A Biography (1909): "The Legacy of John Brown -
Attributed to W. E. B. Du Bois:
“There is in this world no such force as the force of a man determined to rise.”
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“The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1897), ch. XII: The Essentials in the Struggle, paragraph 93: "The Moral Movement”
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. -
“To the Nations of the World , address to Pan-African conference, London (1900). These words are also found in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), ch. II: Of the Dawn of Freedom”
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.