The number of white individuals who are practising with even reasonable approximation the democracy and unselfishness of Jesus Christ is so small and unimportant as to be fit subject for jest in Sunday supplements and in Punch, Life, Le Rire, and Fliegende Blätter.
Du Bois humorously points out the rarity of individuals who truly practice the democratic and selfless teachings of Jesus Christ.
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This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
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Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.