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"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
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"The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning."

"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."

"Experience is a necessary education."

"Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy."
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"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."

"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."

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."

"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."

"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."

"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."

"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."

"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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