The answers to these questions are hard, but yet one answer looms above all,--justice lies with the lowest; the plight of the lowest man,--the plight of the black man--deserves the first answer, and the plight of the giants of industry, the last.
Du Bois asserts that the plight of the most marginalized, particularly black individuals, should be prioritized in the quest for justice.
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