“Where's the coward that would not dare
To fight for such a land?”
Canto IV, stanza 30.
Marmion (1808)
“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
— W.E.B. Du Bois, book Dusk of Dawn
The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 50, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898) http://www.webdubois.org/dbStudyofnprob.html <br class="br">Source: Dusk of Dawn
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