We feel and know that there are many delicate differences in race psychology, numberless changes that our crude social measurements are not yet able to follow minutely, which explain much of history and social development.
This statement from his seminal work acknowledges the subtle complexities of racial differences and the limitations of current social analysis in fully grasping them.
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Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.
A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.