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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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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Human Prejudice Race Reality Value Worth
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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Ambition Joy Justice People Right Training World
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
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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Book Dee Mathematics Reading Science Yourself
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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Escape Reason Run Win World
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
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
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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Education Man Myself True
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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Beautiful Growth Mindset Religion World
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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Hard Land Men Poor Race
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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Acceptance Best Inspirational Season Time Work
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time

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