"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."
-W. E. B. Du Bois
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"Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.“
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"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."
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"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
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