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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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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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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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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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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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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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 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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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
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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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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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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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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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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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