On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois uses biblical metaphor to ask if America fears Black people achieving their aspirations and seeing a future of freedom and equality.
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