W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes About Poverty

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  • To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

    The Souls of Black Folk ch. 1 (1903)
  • There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

    W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The World and Africa and Color and Democracy”, p.165, Oxford University Press
  • Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

    Preface to reprint of The Souls of Black Folk (1969).
  • Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid; and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

    Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' speech, www.scotsman.com. October 20, 1946.
  • 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.

    The Souls of Black Folk ch. 12 (1903)
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