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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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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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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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There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
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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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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 main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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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.
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I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
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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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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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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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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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