On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
It would certainly be soothing if one could readily believe all this; and yet there are too many ugly facts for everything to be thus easily explained away.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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This line expresses skepticism towards simplistic explanations of historical events, insisting that inconvenient truths cannot be easily dismissed.
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