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 BOISThe 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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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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In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no ‘two evils’ exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
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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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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.
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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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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.
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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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Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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