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But if fear was new-born in the hearts of the Unwise Men, the black man was born in a house of fear; to him poverty of the ugliest and straitest type was father, mother, and blood-brother.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois contrasts the fear experienced by the privileged with the lifelong fear that Black individuals endure due to systemic poverty and oppression.
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