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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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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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Personal Development
"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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Personal Development
"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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Personal Development
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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Personal Development
"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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Personal Development
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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Personal Development
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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Personal Development
"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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Personal Development
"I am a man of few words, but many riddles."
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"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
"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."
Development
"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
"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
"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
Race
"Let us banish fear."
Fear
"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
"If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery."
Government
"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me."
Man
"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
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