We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves. β¨ W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois, p.111, Oxford University Press
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