Every white Southerner, who wants peons beneath him, who believes in hereditary menials and a privileged aristocracy, or who hates certain races because of their characteristics, would resent this.
Du Bois identifies the resentment of white Southerners towards the idea of equality for black individuals.
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The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.