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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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Magic Strange Togetherness 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
The 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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Children Death Disappointment Happiness Hide Music People Suffering True Way World
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
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
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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Hurt Live Man Perfection Rain Reality Storm Stress Suffering Woman Work World
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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Force Forget Freedom Issues Live Naked Opinion Price Thinking Truth Violence Worst
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
I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.
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Better End Life Live Long Love People Play Work
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Dare Earth Oneself
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
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
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
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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Black Freedom Man Work
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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Black Fall History Past Shadow Stars World

We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

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