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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

W. E. B. Du Bois

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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Black Freedom Man Work
Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
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Belief Color Future Humanity Men Race World
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
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
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Development Education Human Training Wall
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
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
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Education Man Myself True
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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Art Atmosphere Creation Influence Ourselves Try
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
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
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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Force Forget Freedom Issues Live Naked Opinion Price Thinking Truth Violence Worst
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 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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Black Freedom Man 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

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