If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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Herein lies the tragedy of the age not that men are poor all men know something of poverty not that men are wicked who is good Not that men are ignorant what is truth Nay, but that men know so little of men.W. E. B. Du Bois
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
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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 power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the worlds need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need this life is hell.
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