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We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
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
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.
W. E. B. DU BOIS

Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work
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
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
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
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
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
I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
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Believe Black Brother Development Men Myself Opportunity Possible Soul Time
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
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Art Color Dance Flame Simplicity Sunset Work World
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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Community Criminal Problem Punishment Training Young
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 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
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

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