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" A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
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" The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. "
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" Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. "
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" The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery? "
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" A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again. "
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" One ever feels his twoness - 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. "
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" 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. "
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" What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior! "
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" 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. "
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Planning
Teacher
" My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. "
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" Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. "
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Serious
" If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? "
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Black
Teachers
People
" To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. "
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Hardships
Race
Poor
" 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. "
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Race
Fire
" To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. "
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Mighty
Play
Weak
" There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men. "
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History
Learning
Men
" The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Price
Liberty
Less
" I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. "
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Childhood
Happy
Acceptance
" The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class. "
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Naked
Ignorant
Hands
" Education is the development of power and ideal. "
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Power
Development
Ideal
" My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. "
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Army
Revolution
England
" St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instead of two, with wider streets and dirtier atmosphere, over the dull-brown of wide, calm rivers. The city overflows into the valleys of Illinois and lies there, writhing under its grimy cloud. "
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City
Two
Three
" Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. "
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Live
Progress
Always
" The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness. "
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Ignorance
Men
Group
" Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. "
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Reform
Itself
Capitalism
" Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. "
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Every
Women
Suffrage
" Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery. "
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Most
Today
Slavery
" I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. "
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Too
I Am
Black
" Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood. "
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Men
Long
Battle
" 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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Numbers
Reading