It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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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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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

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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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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.

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The cause of war is preparation for war.

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Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

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A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

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