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Originally Posted by W.E.B. Du Bois
In your terms, they couldn't afford to be "war mongers" because the US was an extremely weak country in their days, so don't try to say that they were pacifists by nature. You can't be a "war monger" when your country is weak.
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I'm saying their words are quite clear. They weren't pacifists. They believed in defending themselves, and believed that every citizen should be armed in order to do so. But they did not believe in initiating wars against other countries for the sake of expanding their sphere of influence in the world. They did not believe in spreading money around the world and paying off dictators, tyrants or any other governments to buy alliances with them.