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Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained, efficient forces.

Education, then, is the safest and richest investment possible to man.

The brain can be disciplined by learning the habit of obedience.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

By the aid of the Mechanical Notation, the Analytical Engine became a reality: for it became susceptible of demonstration.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

To specialize any form of labor is a step up: to organize it is another step.

he kept his mind at full stretch like a bow, and never gave in to old age by growing slack

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.

Therefore we ought to exercise ourselves in small things, and beginning with them to proceed to the greater.

Man should make an art of thinking.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one

The whole point depends upon his being at once humble enough to wonder, and haughty enough to defy.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

These possibilities of mental development are still further increased when the man makes his own records. This leads to closer attention, to more interest in the work, and to a realization of the man as to what the record really means, and what value it represents.

You must make up your mind to steady and earnest work. You must be content to get on slowly if you only get on thoroughly.

And yet, in spite of the opposition encountered, and the obstacles opposed to their acquisition of knowledge and their accumulation of property, the progress made by colored women along these lines has never been surpassed by that of any people in the history of the world.