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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Believe Greatness Hope Human Life Progress
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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
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
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
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
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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Children Learning Peace Teacher Yourself
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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Black Crime Easy Oppression World
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
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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Hear Improvement Vote
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
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
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
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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Glory Pay Simplicity Thinking Truth Work

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