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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
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"Knowledge is curiosity to know more."
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"The principal art of the teacher is to awaken the joy in creation and knowledge."
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"If a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading."
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"Life is a curriculum unique to every student."
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."
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"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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"We really shouldn't be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices."
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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
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"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."
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"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."
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"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."
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"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
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"To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him."
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
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"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."
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"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."
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"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
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