W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

The public digs needled me to rebel. They forced me to work harder.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

And do not acquiesce to the unjust …

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

The struggle is my life.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

I sort of latch onto roles that have something to fight against.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.