1. ”The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this — with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need — this life is hell.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
2. ”I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.” ― W. E. B. Du Bois
3. ”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 Bois
4. “There 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 Bois
5. ”Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois
6. ”A system cannot fail those who it was never meant to protect.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
7. ”Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
8. ”The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
9. ”A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.” ― W.E.B. Du Bois
10. ”Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
11. ”Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.” –W. E. B. Du Bois
12. ”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 Bois
13. “When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” ― W.E.B. Dubois
14. ”Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.” ― W. E. B. Du Bois
15. ”The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
16. ”And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.” ― W. E. B. Dubois
17. ”Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools – intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it – this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.” ― W.E. B. Du Bois
