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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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Personal Development
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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Personal Development
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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Personal Development
"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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Personal Development
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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Personal Development
"No man may make another free."
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Personal Development
"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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Personal Development
"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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Personal Development
"Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men."
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"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."
Inspirational
"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit."
Being
"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
Change
"In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them."
Democracy
"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people."
People
"Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits."
Business
"Let us banish fear."
Fear
"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me."
Man
"Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority."
Education
"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto."
Will
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