One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

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Men must not only know, they must act.

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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

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

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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

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