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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 world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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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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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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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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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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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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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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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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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
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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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