Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
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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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Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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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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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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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
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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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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
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A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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