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"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
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Personal Development
"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
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Personal Development
"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."
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Personal Development
"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."
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Personal Development
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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Personal Development
"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
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Personal Development
"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
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Personal Development
"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."
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Personal Development
"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."
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Personal Development
"Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
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"And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race."
History
"The mere imparting of information is not education."
Education
"The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself."
Opportunity
"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
"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
Development
"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."
Thought
"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
"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands."
Money
"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess."
Equality
"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
Leadership
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