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I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

W. E. B. Du Bois

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
Whether you like it or not the millions are here, and here they will remain. If you do not lift them up, they will pull you down… Education must not simply teach work – it must teach life.
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Education Teacher Teaching Work Yourself
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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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Ability Clothes Determination Greatness Skin Wonderful World
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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Believe Democracy Election Evil Existence Myself Vote
One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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Alone Body Darkness Feeling Soul Strength
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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Better End Life Live Long Love People Play Work
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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Appearance Beautiful Men Thinking Vision Woman World
The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Deep Preparation War
Mr. Washington apologizes for injustice, he belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brighter minds. The way for people to gain their reasonable rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away.
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Ambition Joy Justice People Right Training World
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
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.
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Black Fall History Past Shadow Stars World
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Need Ourselves Power Save Slave
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
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

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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