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Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance....
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For a number of years there has been a righteous discontent, a burning zeal to go forward in His name among the Baptist women of our churches and it will be the dynamic force in the religious campaign at the opening of the 20th century.
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The Negro must stop charging his failures up to his "color" and to white people's attitudes.
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At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.
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It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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Born:
May 2, 1879
Died:
May 20, 1961
(aged 82)
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Nannie Helen Burroughs was an African-American educator, orator, religious leader, civil rights activist, feminist and businesswoman in the United States.
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