Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W. E. B. DU BOISWhen you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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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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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.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
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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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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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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 cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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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 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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I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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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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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world’s work to its highest perfection.
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