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.
W. E. B. DU BOISOne 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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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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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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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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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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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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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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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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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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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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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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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Men must not only know, they must act.
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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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