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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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
For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.
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Content Dangerous Education Kind Men Revolution Satisfaction
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
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
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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Failure Follow Honesty Liberty Wrong
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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Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work
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
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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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Ability Clothes Determination Greatness Skin Wonderful World
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
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Ancient Nature Stars Young
The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.
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Community Criminal Problem Punishment Training Young
Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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Black Identity Poor Protection Rich Theft White
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
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

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