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“Hour by hour I laid in bed thinking about what would motivate those who say they are defending people of color to brutally beat a person of color.”
― Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
― Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy
“The truth as Joseph and his comrades discovered, was that the Islamic State's fighters were skilled butchers, but lousy soldiers. "They're only good at terrorizing people who aren't armed," he said. "They think they're good, but when we wake them up in the middle of the night, they would crap their pants.”
― Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
― Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
“In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities.”
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
“My challenge to every American is simple: reject the Left’s victim narrative and do it yourself. Because we will never realize the true potential that this incredible country has to offer—in the land of the free and the home of the brave—if we continue to be shackled by the great myth of government deliverance.”
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
― Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
“All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others.”
― The Wright Brothers
― The Wright Brothers
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