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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
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Ambition Joy Justice People Right Training World
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
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
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Heaven Hell Life Need Return Satisfaction Work World
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
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
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
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
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Learning Life Purpose Selfish Trust
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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Future Independence Life Mom Right Work
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
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
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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Door Himself Look Marriage Men Stand

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