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Education is the development of power and ideal.
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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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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t...
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships...
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I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which mo...
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restrict...
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Irela...
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of educatio...
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For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my you...
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, ...
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or rec...
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I am a Bolshevik.
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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critiq...
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One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings...
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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, ...
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broa...
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - '...
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School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men....
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ...
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was th...
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St. Louis sprawls where mighty rivers meet - as broad as Philadelphia, but three stories high instea...
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivin...
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in o...
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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are do...
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word '...
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It can be safely asserted that since early Colonial times, the North has had a distinct race problem...
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of al...
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I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to brea...
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are...
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been...
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast,...
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary...
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's sel...
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line: the relation of the darker to...
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learn...
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever...
W. E. B. DU BOIS
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...
W. E. B. DU BOIS
These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of the...
W. E. B. DU BOIS
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. DU BOIS
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us m...
W. E. B. DU BOIS
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and ...
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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Th...
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamel...
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Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or rec...
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One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings...
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ...
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
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Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
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We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?
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Half of this story is true and the other half might very well have happened.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All...
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid...
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. WHITE
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to an...
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and ...
E. B. WHITE
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting t...
E. B. WHITE
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Be obscure clearly.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can...
E. B. WHITE
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E. B. WHITE
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is...
E. B. WHITE
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. WHITE
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. WHITE
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. WHITE
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. WHITE
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. WHITE
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the...
E. B. WHITE
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and ...
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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E. B. WHITE
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E. B. WHITE
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E. B. WHITE
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can w...
E. B. WHITE
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can...
E. B. WHITE
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond...
E. B. WHITE
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outw...
E. B. WHITE
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens
E. B. WHITE
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one
E. B. WHITE
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of t...
E. B. WHITE
It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, ...
E. B. WHITE
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of ...
E. B. WHITE
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind
E. B. WHITE
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. WHITE
Oh, I never look under the hood.
E. B. WHITE
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is...
E. B. WHITE
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer l...
E. B. WHITE
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
E. B. WHITE
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. WHITE
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all...
E. B. WHITE
Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
E. W. HOWE
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees th...
E. W. HOWE
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertisi...
E. W. HOWE
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums wo...
E. W. HOWE
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. HOWE
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
E. W. HOWE
A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
E. W. HOWE
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
E. W. HOWE
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found t...
E. W. HOWE
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling i...
E. W. HOWE
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. HOWE
Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which d...
E. W. HOWE
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
E. W. HOWE
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
E. W. HOWE
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
E. W. HOWE
The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
E. W. HOWE
Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.
E. W. HOWE
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will hav...
E. W. HOWE
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
E. W. HOWE
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciat...
E. W. HOWE
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out hap...
W. E. CHANNING
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a s...
E. W. DIJKSTRA
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. DIJKSTRA
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult...
E. W. HOWE
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. HOWE
To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
E. W. HOWE
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
E. W. HOWE
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up...
E. W. HOWE
A thief believes everybody steals.
E. W. HOWE
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
E. W. HOWE
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
E. W. HOWE
The fathers of the field had been pretty confusing: John von Neumann speculated about computers and ...
E. W. DIJKSTRA
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offen...
E. W. DIJKSTRA
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposur...
E. W. DIJKSTRA
There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HOWE
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
E. W. HOWE
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at ...
E. W. HOWE