The knowledge of what to do in industry and how to do it in order to attain the resulting goods rests in the hands and brains of the workers and managers, and the judges of the result are the public.
Du Bois emphasizes that the knowledge necessary for industrial success lies with the workers and managers, not just the owners.
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He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.
The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.
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