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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Ability Clothes Determination Greatness Skin Wonderful World
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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Black Identity Poor Protection Rich Theft White
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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Determination Force Human Peace Person Priosn Soul Success
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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Magic Strange Togetherness World
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Hard Land Men Poor Race
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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Education Man Myself True
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Book Dee Mathematics Reading Science Yourself
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Inspirational Liberty Money Price
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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Black Fall History Past Shadow Stars World
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin

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