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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring. The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in the United States that no 'two evils' exist. There is but one evil party with two names, and it will be elected despite all I can do or say.
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?
