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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time
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
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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
When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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Believe Death Greatness Human Life Live Possible Progress Simplicity Time
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 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 but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Dare Earth Oneself
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
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Community Criminal Problem Punishment Training Young
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
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
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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Escape Reason Run Win World

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