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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."

"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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