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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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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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Door Himself Look Marriage Men Stand
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
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Democracy Government Honesty Leadership Safety Soul Touch
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
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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Black Freedom Man Work
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Need Ourselves Power Save Slave
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
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
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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Black Identity Poor Protection Rich Theft White
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 theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
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Democracy Experience Government Intelligence Learning People Right Theory Willing
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

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