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Instead of seeking to relieve the cause of such a possible feeling, most of them strain every effort to bottle up the black man's resentment.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois critiques the tendency of society to suppress the legitimate grievances of Black individuals rather than addressing their causes.
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