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• ‟ Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

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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.

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• ‟ Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

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• ‟ 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?

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• ‟ Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

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• ‟ For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

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