Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life.
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.
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.
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.
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women’s suffrage.
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.
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism – the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute – this is the only way of human life.
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody’s slavery.
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.