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"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."
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"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
"When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength."
"The weak mind is irritated at a little: the strong mind bears it like a rock which moveth not, though a thousand breakers dash upon it, and cast their pitiful malice in spray upon its summit."
"It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive."
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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."
"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."
"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."
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