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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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Fire Mindset Play Training Weakness Wild
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Children Death Disappointment Happiness Hide Music People Suffering True Way World
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
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time
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
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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Belief Color Future Humanity Men Race 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
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world’s need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this – with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need – this life is hell.
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Heaven Hell Life Need Return Satisfaction Work World
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Development Education Human Training Wall
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
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
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Escape Reason Run Win World
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
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Beautiful Growth Mindset Religion 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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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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