"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

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Source : John Brown ch. 13 (1909)

W. E. B. Du Bois

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“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”
“It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.”
“Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.”
“There are a shitload of songs about being in love with someone who doesn't love you back and I talk about weed and my cat and being lazy a lot.”

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“Woman is a violent and uncontrolled animal, and it is useless to let go the reins and then expect her not to kick over the traces. You must keep her on a tight rein . . . Women want total freedom or rather - to call things by their names - total licence. If you allow them to achieve complete equality with men, do you think they will be easier to live with? Not at all. Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters . . .”
“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
“One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Yet there are some critics in the nonfiction world who still look at some of today's stranger interpretations of the essay and say "You don't belong here. That's not how we do things." I think that's problematic.”

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