The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.

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Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

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Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

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

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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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We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.

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