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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
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Learning Life Purpose Selfish Trust
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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Force Forget Freedom Issues Live Naked Opinion Price Thinking Truth Violence Worst
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Inspirational Liberty Money Price
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Goodness Selfish
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
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
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
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Children Difficult Feeling Frame Right
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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Future Independence Life Mom Right Work
Life 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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Disappointment Goodness Joy Life Pain Story World
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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Believe Black Brother Development Men Myself Opportunity Possible Soul Time

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