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 BOISThere is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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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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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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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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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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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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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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The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.
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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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