...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand. β¨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.113, Oxford University Press
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