The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

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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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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

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

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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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.

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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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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