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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
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
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
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 art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
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Art Color Dance Flame Simplicity Sunset Work World
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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Earth White
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 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 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
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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Best Book Writing
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
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
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
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

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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