Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe 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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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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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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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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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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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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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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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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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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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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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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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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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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