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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs."
— Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book)

tags: biography, inspirational, memoir, nonfiction, social-commentary

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"We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. "
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: social-commentary

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""The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defense, - else what shall save us from a second slavery?""
— W.E.B. Du Bois (The Souls of Black Folk)

tags: american-culture, black-culture, social-commentary

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