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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong.”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois reflects on the noble yet often unattainable aspiration of nations to combat evil purely for moral reasons.
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