Would America have been America without her Negro people?
W. E. B. DU BOISBegin 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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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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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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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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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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One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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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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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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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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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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