Speech in Cleveland, Ohio.(Sept. 11, 1918) Eugene V. Debs Speaks, ed. Jean Y. Tussey (1970)
“The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.”
Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003), p. 74
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
W.E.B. Du Bois 62
American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868–1963Related quotes
“A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.”
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
“Times will change for the better when you change.”
“People begin to make the biggest changes when they hurt enough to have to.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.”
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 153 (tr. Fagles)