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" A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. "
Classic
Again
Book
" After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. "
See
World
Son
" 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. "
Rights
Credit
More
" All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. "
Care
Black
Stand
" All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold. "
College
God
Training
" An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. "
Thoughts
Strength
American
" As a race, the Negroes are not lazy. "
Race
Lazy
Negroes
" A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "
Training
Men
House
" A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. "
People
True
False
" Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies. "
Freedom
Action
Men
" Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.' "
Daily
War
Place
" Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. "
Live
Progress
Always
" But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. "
Through
Race
Fire
" Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. "
Reform
Itself
Capitalism
" Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. "
People
Uplift
Work
" Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "
Men
House
Training
" Education is the development of power and ideal. "
Power
Development
Ideal
" Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. "
Must
Teach
Work
" Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. "
Every
Women
Suffrage
" For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder. "
Youth
Planning
Teacher
" For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals. "
Best
Great
America
" For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote. "
Picture
Labor
Land
" From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation. "
Day
Equality
Black
" From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership? "
People
Leadership
Work
" How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! "
Human
How
Hard
" I am a Bolshevik. "
Bolshevik
Am
I Am
" I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. "
Too
I Am
Black
" I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. 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 the possibility of infinite development. "
Gift
Men
Soul
" I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love. "
Freedom
Vote
Sunshine
" I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength. "
Strength
Believe
Peace
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