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.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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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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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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When 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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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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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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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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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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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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Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society
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