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W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes

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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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