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Yet for that man's crime this man lieth maimed and murdered, his wife naked to shame, his children to poverty and evil.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “Yet for that man's crime this man lieth maimed and murdered, his wife naked to shame, his children to poverty and evil.”
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Du Bois laments the consequences of one man's crime on an innocent family.
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