All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
W. E. B. DU BOISLife has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite joy in seeing the World, the most interesting of continued stories, unfold.
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
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I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
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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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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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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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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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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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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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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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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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