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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
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We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
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Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks he's rocking his own.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ''It is the busiest man who has time to spare.''
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