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Ralph Ellison: The antidote to...

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The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness.

Source: Speech, 1974.
-- Ralph Ellison, (Mar 1 1914-1994), US author; He proclaimed the beginning of the 1960s civil rights movement with his novel The Invisible Man, 1952.


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