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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…
- The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
- 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…
- The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is…
- How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife…
- The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may…
- We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
- Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
- Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by…
- The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of…
- We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic…
- 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…
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