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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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Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class of unnamed and unnameable sin, and then damn any individual in the alleged class, however innocent he may be.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.