"This the American Black man knows: his fight is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or he wins. He will enter modern civilization in America as a Black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

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“In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseâ€™s mother was staying at home.”
“You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.”
“Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.”
“When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?”
“Infantry, Artillery, Aviation - all that we have - are yours to dispose of as you will. . . . I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.”

Source : Gen. John Joseph Pershing to Gen. Foch, Letter written from Office of the Commander-in-Chief, American Expeditionary Forces, in France. "Literary Digest History of World War," Volume V, p. 43, March 28, 1918.
“My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. Â And the cost is more than I can bear.”
“We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.”

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