It is not enough for the Negroes to declare that color-prejudice is the sole cause of their social condition, nor for the white South to reply that their social condition is the main cause of prejudice.
Du Bois critiques the oversimplified arguments from both Black and white communities regarding the causes of racial prejudice and social conditions.
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Then in after years when I came to Nashville I saw the great temple builded of these songs towering over the pale city.
Of death the Negro showed little fear, but talked of it familiarly and even fondly as simply a crossing of the waters, perhaps—who knows?—back to his ancient forests again.
Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.