"The Souls of Black Folk" Quotes
A collection of essays addressing the social, economic, and psychological struggles of African Americans in the United States.
nonfiction | 288 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line.
One ever feels his twoness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I 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.
The song of the sorrowing river, soft and wild to the soul.
The broad-faced sun smiles over the earth.
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked,—who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
