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"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."
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"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."
"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."
"A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible."
"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You're doing just fine."
"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."
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"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."
"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."
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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