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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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 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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Better Change Death Hurt Kill People Time
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
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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Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Color Design Present Problem Time
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
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Achievement Oppression Secure Soul White Yourself
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
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
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Education Life Simplicity Teaching Thinking Work
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
The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.
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Children Death Disappointment Happiness Hide Music People Suffering True Way World
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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Bill Civilization Man Price Right Work
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
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
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
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Liberty Responsibility Training
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 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

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