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

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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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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

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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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Men must not only know, they must act.

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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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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

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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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The cause of war is preparation for war.

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