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" In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment. "
W. E. B. Du Bois
Before
Slave
Constitution
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" To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. "
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" 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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" Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage. "
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" Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. "
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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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" 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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" As a race, the Negroes are not lazy. "
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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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" 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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Slavery
" The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. "
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Problem
Line
" If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? "
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Teachers
People
" 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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" 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. "
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Care
Black
Stand
" Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself. "
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Good
Discipline
Serious
" A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers. "
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People
True
False
" No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life. "
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Men
Good
Effort
" 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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" The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations. "
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" 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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War
" 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
" 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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Race
Poor
" 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
" 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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Ignorant
Hands
" 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. "
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" Education is the development of power and ideal. "
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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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" 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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" My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. "
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Army
Revolution
England
" Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. "
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