In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

W. E. B. Du Bois
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I insist that the question of the future is how best to keep these millions from brooding over the wrongs of the past and difficulties of the present, so that all their energies may be bent toward a cheerful striving and cooperation with their white neighbors toward a larger, juster, and fuller future

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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

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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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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.

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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.

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