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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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Would America have been America without her Negro people?
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.
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.
Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.