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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
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Disappointment Goodness Joy Life Pain Story World
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
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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Beautiful Growth Mindset Religion World
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
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Failure Follow Honesty Liberty Wrong
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
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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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
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
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
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
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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Black Crime Easy Oppression World
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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Better Change Death Hurt Kill People Time
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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Black Fall History Past Shadow Stars World
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
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World

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