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I was born free.
I am a Bolshevik.
Liberty trains for liberty.
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
Whiteness is ownership of the earth.
How shall Integrity face Oppression?
As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
Men must not only know, they must act.
The cause of war is preparation for war.
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not.
Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
Race prejudice decreases values, both real estate and human.
America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.
How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.