A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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

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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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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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Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.

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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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Most men in this world are colored. A belief in humanity means a belief in colored men. The future world will, in all reasonable probability, be what colored men make it.

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There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

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There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

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The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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