W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes About Today
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All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
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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.
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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.
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