Sentence examples for warring ideals from inspiring English sources

W. E. B. DuBois famously wrote of a black "double consciousness," in which the American and the Negro are "two warring ideals in one black body".

One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body".

One ever feels his two-ness — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder".

"One ever feels his twoness -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder".

Plumbing the souls of black folk, he diagnosed a painful paradox branded on the collective psyche of his people: "One ever feels his two-ness -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body".

Du Bois described this "double-consciousness" as "two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder".

For the generation that came of age during the Civil War, ideals and violence were closely entangled.

Mr Abe's "proactive pacifism" will make Japan America's proxy army, say the hibakusha, pulling the nation away from the anti-war ideals that survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have symbolised since 1945.

The original trilogy loyalists, now in their 40s, think that the prequel of the late 1990s and the re-releases of the originals corrupted the Star Wars ideal by being tailored to a politically correct audience.

Such an argument runs counter to the just war ideal that combatants can be killed.

But it is possible to speak of justified violence as in the just war ideal; so not all violence is unjustified.