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- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
- Contamination
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?
- Bellies
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- Nov 07, 2020
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born free.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
- Illustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Bolshevik
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a Bolshevik.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020