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Buncle

Buncle

Joined June 2020

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The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Dubois
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...not at Yale or Columbia, is there an air of higher resolve or more unfettered striving: the determination to realize for men, both black and white, the broadest possibilities of life, to seek the better and the best, to spread with their own hands the Gospel of Sacrifice.

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The Souls of Black Folk | W.E.B. Dubois
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The function of the university is...above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing the knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.

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The Portable Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
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With brave men, there is always a remedy for oppression.

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The Portable Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
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...for they had much rather see us engaged in those degrading sports, than to see us behaving like intellectual, moral, and accountable beings.

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The Portable Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
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I am strongly tempted to give the names of two or three of those little boys, as a testimonial of the gratitude and affection I bear them; but prudence forbids; not that it would injure me, but it might embarrass them; for it is almost an unpardonable offence to teach slaves to read in this Christian nation.

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The Portable Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.