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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…

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through…
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a…
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom…
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring…
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one…
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading…
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

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He who avoids complaint invites happiness. — Abu Bakr
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time. — Honore de Balzac
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint… — Robert Burns
I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a… — Kirstie Alley
"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint." — Van Jones
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson
Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time… — Susan Ward
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity… — Olive Schreiner
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that… — Lance Armstrong
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. — Jonathan Swift

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