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.

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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

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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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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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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?

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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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Men must not only know, they must act.

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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

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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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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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