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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

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There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
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Job Poor Work World
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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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
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Acceptance Best Inspirational Season Time Work
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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Demand Dream Expression Freedom Human Soul Spirit
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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Black Crime Easy Oppression World
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
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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Hate Mom Try Woman World Worship
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
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Content Dangerous Education Kind Men Revolution Satisfaction
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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Black Devil Doubt Fire Race Sincere Woman
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
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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Failure Follow Honesty Liberty Wrong
Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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Efficiant Fear Honesty Ignorance Knowledge White

Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

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