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W. E. B. Du Bois has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through…
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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a…
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one…
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading…
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to…
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Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.
— Conrad Black
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As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in…
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I only direct in self-defense.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
— Fred Allen
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Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.…
— Frederick William Robertson
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Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
— Khalil Gibran
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Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.
— Ronald Reagan
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Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't…
— Charley Reese
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Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator,…
— Elbridge Gerry
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The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
— James Monroe
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Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime…
— James Bovard
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