Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
W. E. B. DU BOISEducation is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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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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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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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.
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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong – this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
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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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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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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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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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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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