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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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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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Better Change Death Hurt Kill People Time
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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Appearance Darkness Light People Problem Race Sea
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Development Education Human Training Wall
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
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
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time
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
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Children Death Disappointment Happiness Hide Music People Suffering True Way World
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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Art Atmosphere Creation Influence Ourselves Try
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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Community Herself People
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
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Believe Greatness Hope Human Life Progress
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
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
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Need Ourselves Power Save Slave
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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