Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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

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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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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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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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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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

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