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W. E. B. Du Bois

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The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

Great Barrington, Fisk, Harvard, Berlin, Atlanta. A scholar who wrote the inner life of a people the census only counted. The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

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“For the laborers as such, there is in these new captains of industry neither love nor hate, neither sympathy nor romance; it is a cold question of dollars and dividends.”

I saw this truth in the Tennessee hills where I taught, when the white overseers counted our bellies for profit with the same eyeless stare they gave a mule. Do not ask your brother to forgive his master’s greed, but organize yourself so that the dollar must buy your bread and not merely your labor.