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If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

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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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If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.

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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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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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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.

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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.

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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: February 23rd, 1868

Died: August 27th, 1963

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