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

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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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Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

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