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- So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd…
- The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent…
- It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and…
- Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is…
- It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
- How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall…
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