Source: Light in August (1932), Chapter 4
“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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The Souls of Black Folk
Source: The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings
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