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" I was born free. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Born
Free
I Was Born
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" Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life. "
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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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" 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. "
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" A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. "
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" School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. "
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" It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana. "
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Create
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" 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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Through
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" It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. "
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Eyes
Looking
" The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder. "
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Cruel
Mean
Slavery
" I am a Bolshevik. "
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Bolshevik
Am
I Am
" Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. "
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Yourself
Soul
Hand
" The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people. "
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People
Race
Thought
" It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem. Every one of these States had slaves, and at the beginning of Washington's Administration, there were 40,000 black slaves and 17,000 black freemen in this section. "
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Race
Beginning
Black
" 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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World
Personal
Matter
" I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. "
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Childhood
Happy
Acceptance
" Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. "
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Live
Progress
Always
" Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. "
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Political
Justice
Consistency
" 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
" 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. "
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Freedom
Action
Men
" Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. "
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People
Uplift
Work
" These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War. "
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Live
Children
War
" 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
" 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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World
Race
" Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground. "
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God
Culture
" If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity. "
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Time
American
Achieve
" If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. "
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Earth
Known
Land
" In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment. "
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Before
Slave
Constitution
" 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? "
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" Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture. "
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" If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? "
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