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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

— W. E. B. Du Bois Niagara Movement Speech (1905)

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

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The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.

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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.

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