"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
― W. E. B. Du Bois
Topic(s): Power
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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 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."
- "A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
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- "The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all."― Origen
- "Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People."― Benjamin Disraeli
- "No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld