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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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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
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
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Children Death Disappointment Happiness Hide Music People Suffering True Way World
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
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Ambition Joy Justice People Right Training 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
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
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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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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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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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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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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