The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong.
Du Bois emphasizes the importance of empowering women to achieve true strength in society.
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And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.
Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.