I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. DU BOISAll 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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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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But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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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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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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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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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.
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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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We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
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