The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

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Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

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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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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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The cause of war is preparation for war.

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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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It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

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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.

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

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