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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
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Content Dangerous Education Kind Men Revolution Satisfaction
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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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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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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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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Door Himself Look Marriage Men Stand
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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Black Devil Doubt Fire Race Sincere Woman
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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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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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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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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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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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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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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