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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
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Black Freedom Man 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
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Believe Greatness Hope Human Life Progress
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
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, — the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
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Appearance Darkness Light People Problem Race Sea
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
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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
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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Believe Death Greatness Human Life Live Possible Progress Simplicity Time
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
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Determination Equality Force Rise Woman
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 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
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
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Community Herself People

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