The answer is clear: If the great battle of human right against poverty, against disease, against color prejudice is to be won, it must be won, not in our day, but in the day of our children's children.
Du Bois emphasizes the long-term struggle for justice and equality that extends beyond the present generation.
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Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.
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.
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