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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.

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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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Choice Democracy Destroy Ignorance
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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Deep Freedom Men Slave
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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Class Device Devil Diversity Innocent Justice Sin
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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Education Teacher Teaching Work Yourself
The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Deep Preparation War
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
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.
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Hate Mom Try Woman World Worship
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
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Heaven Hell Life Need Return Satisfaction Work World
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
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Demand Dream Expression Freedom Human Soul Spirit
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
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Ignorance One Liner
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
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
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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Door Himself Look Marriage Men Stand
The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.
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Democracy Experience Government Intelligence Learning People Right Theory Willing
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself

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