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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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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Believe Death Greatness Human Life Live Possible Progress Simplicity Time
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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Glory Pay Simplicity Thinking Truth Work
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
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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Democracy Government Honesty Leadership Safety Soul Touch
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
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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Heaven Hell Life Need Return Satisfaction Work World
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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Black Crime Easy Oppression World
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
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Age Goodness Ignorance Knowledge Lying Men Poor Tragedy
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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Achievement Oppression Secure Soul White Yourself
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Believe Greatness Hope Human Life Progress
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
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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Education Teacher Teaching Work Yourself
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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Divine Gift Human Laughter Love Pain World Wrong
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Dare Earth Oneself

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