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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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"It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift."
"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
"That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth."
"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth."
"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."
"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."
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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."
"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."
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
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