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"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."
"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
"Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."
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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."
"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
"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."
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
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