Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
W. E. B. DU BOISMr. 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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One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
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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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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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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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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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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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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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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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