“I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

As quoted in Fighting Fire with Fire: African Americans and Hereditarian Thinking, 1900-1942 by Gregory Michael Dorr (RTF document) http://www.wfu.edu/~caron/ssrs/Dorr.rtf. Dorr dates this quote to 1910.

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