Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. DU BOISIt is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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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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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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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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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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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.
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
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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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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
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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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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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