Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its po…

W. E. B. Du Bois
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Cannot the nation that has absorbed ten million foreigners into its political life without catastrophe absorb ten million Negro Americans into that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve? ✨ W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings, p.66, Courier Corporation
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