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.
W. E. B. DU BOISThere can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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Men must not only know, they must act.
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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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Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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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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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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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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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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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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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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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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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 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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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