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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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"Let me not fear adversity."
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"This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events."
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"Be bold enough to appreciate. Be strong enough not to criticize."
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"The divinity within is an endless strength."
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"The greater the pressure the brighter the diamond."
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"Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand."
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"You don't need armor if your skin is thick. You don't need a sword if your mind is sharp. You don't need a shield if your heart is strong. You don't need a fortress is your soul is secure."
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"A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf."
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"The more the Word of God abides in a person, the more strength and wisdom he will have."
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"Modern humans are taught from the childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are embodiment of glory and children of immortal strength. Eventually a society full of bravehearts will rise."
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"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."
Woman
"To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires."
Education
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
Power
"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."
Soul
"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."
Strength
"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."
Books
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
Liberty
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
Land
"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men."
Education
"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."
Work
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