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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

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
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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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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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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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
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Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
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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
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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Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.
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