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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."

"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

"There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge."

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."

"The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell."
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"Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude."


"The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity."


"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face."


"It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality."


"Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being."


"Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time."
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