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I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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Hard Land Men Poor Race
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself
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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Future Independence Life Mom Right Work
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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Believe Death Greatness Human Life Live Possible Progress Simplicity Time
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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Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
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Hate Mom Try Woman World Worship
The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Deep Preparation War
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
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
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Learning Life Purpose Selfish Trust
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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Children Difficult Feeling Frame Right
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
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Acceptance Best Inspirational Season Time Work
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Believe Democracy Election Evil Existence Myself Vote

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