Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

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The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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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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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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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

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