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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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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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The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
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Democracy Experience Government Intelligence Learning People Right Theory Willing
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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Black Freedom Man Work
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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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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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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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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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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Future Independence Life Mom Right Work
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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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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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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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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