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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
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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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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When in this world a man comes forward with a thought, a deed, a vision, we ask not how does he look, but what is his message? The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty.
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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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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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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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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 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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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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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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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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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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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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