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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.

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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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Community Herself People
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
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Glory Pay Simplicity Thinking Truth Work
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Inspirational Liberty Money Price
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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Education Man Myself True
Men must not only know, they must act.
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Action Man
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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Divine Gift Human Laughter Love Pain World Wrong
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.
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Accomplishment Color Democracy Peace Perfection Race
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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
But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.
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Demand Dream Expression Freedom Human Soul Spirit
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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Magic Strange Togetherness World
The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Deep Preparation War
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
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Age Goodness Ignorance Knowledge Lying Men Poor Tragedy
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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