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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 their presence be known."
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."
"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."
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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 of hardships."
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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