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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 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
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
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
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
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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Glory Pay Simplicity Thinking Truth Work
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Inspirational Liberty Money Price
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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Ancient Nature Stars Young
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time
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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Efficiant Fear Honesty Ignorance Knowledge White
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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Determination Force Human Peace Person Priosn Soul Success
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Ability Clothes Determination Greatness Skin Wonderful World
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
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
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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Black Fall History Past Shadow Stars World

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