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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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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
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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.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
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The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
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One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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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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