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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."
"I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people."
"The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival."
"The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press."
"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities."
"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
"Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so."
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