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Tag: W. E. B. Du Bois

(1868-1963) Professor, Civil Rights Activist, NAACP Founding Member

Concentration of powers

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021Categories collectivizationTags W. E. B. Du Bois

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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