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Unable to perceive a single chance of regaining their equality, they give up to despair, and allow themselves to fall below the dignity of human nature.
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Tyrannous exaction brings on servile concealment; and that again calls forth tyrannous coercion.
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To state the problem is to recall the truth that no single principle can answer all of life's complexities.
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If ever any system of privilege and enforced subjection had its yoke tightly riveted on the necks of those who are kept down by it, this has.
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Her power often gives her what she has no right to, but does not enable her to assert her own rights.
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One ever feels his two-ness,--an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings