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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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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
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
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
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
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Demand Dream Expression Freedom Human Soul Spirit
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
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
One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Alone Body Darkness Feeling Soul Strength
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
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Art Color Dance Flame Simplicity Sunset Work World
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
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

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