Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

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Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

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For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

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If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

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