Men must not only know, they must act.

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

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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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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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.

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Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. How does it feel to be a problem?

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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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There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done.

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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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