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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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Atheist Color Intelligence Kind Men
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
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
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
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Dare Earth Oneself
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
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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Accomplishment Color Democracy Peace Perfection Race
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself
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
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.
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Better End Life Live Long Love People Play Work
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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Door Himself Look Marriage Men Stand
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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Children Difficult Feeling Frame Right

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