A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. Go to Quote / Comment
Judgment is forced upon us by experience. Go to Quote / Comment
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent. Go to Quote / Comment
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Go to Quote / Comment
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor. Go to Quote / Comment