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

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

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

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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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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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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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