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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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 favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
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
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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Magic Strange Togetherness World
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
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
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down… Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.
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Education Teacher Teaching Work Yourself
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
There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
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Job Poor Work 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
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
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Acceptance Best Inspirational Season Time Work
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
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Age Goodness Ignorance Knowledge Lying Men Poor Tragedy

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