The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
W. E. B. DU BOISThe world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.
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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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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise.
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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
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As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
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Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, – all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, – who is good? Not that men are ignorant, – what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
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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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There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
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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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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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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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